Definition
Disability is the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or that has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
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The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) has responsibility for the administration of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provided for under title II of the Social Security Act (the Act) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability programprovided for under title XVI of the Act. The SSDI program provides disability benefits to disabled workers insured under the Act, children of insured workers who become disabled before age 22 and to disabled widows or widowers and certain surviving divorced spouses of insured...
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20 CFR 404.1513(a) and 416.913(a); http://www.socialsecurity.gov, under “Our Program Rules.” Accessed February 2006.
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Dorf, V. (2013). Disability Evaluation in the Social Security Administration. In: Gebhart, G.F., Schmidt, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28753-4_1125
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