On October 13, 2010, we published a final rule that temporarily authorized State agency disability examiners to make fully favorable determinations without the approval of a State agency medical or ...

Traditionally, the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed a pretty comprehensive process to evaluate disability claims. The in-depth nature of the process is meant to provide accurate ...

Q: Why are some people able to get Social Security income earlier than others? A: Generally, Social Security benefits are paid to eligible workers, and their families, based on the workers' earnings.

The Aug. 8 report reviewed 180 initial disability applications that could be deemed priority cases because they meet SSA criteria, such as a Quick Disability Determination, Compassionate Allowances, ...

The Social Security Administration has implemented its new quick disability determination (QDD) process in Missouri’s disability determination services. Under QDD, a model analyzes specific pieces of ...

Have you been thinking about applying for Social Security disability benefits, but you are unable to visit a Social Security office to complete the interview? Or perhaps your disabling condition makes ...

Vincent Nibali noted that SSA’s definition of disability is based on a person’s ability to work, and he asked the panelists for their advice on how to collect information on other aspects that affect ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The Social Security Administration has proposed to allow disability examiners in state agencies to make temporary “fully favorable” determinations on certain claims ...

There cannot be a good disability determination process without considering equity. It is dangerous, in some ways, to marginalize equity issues as something separate as opposed to being integral to ...