Social Security Listing Of Impairments

The list of deficiencies described for each major body system, impairments that are considered serious enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity (or in the case of children under 18 years of application for SSI, cause marked and severe functional limitations). Most of the listed impairments are permanent or likely to cause death or a specific statement of duration is made. For all others, the evidence must show that the impairment has lasted or is expected to last for a continuous period of at least 12 months. The criteria for the list of deficiencies are applicable to assessing applications for disability benefits or payments under the Social Security Disability Security and SSI programs.

Part A

This section contains the list of shortcomings of medical criteria that apply to adults 18 and older. The medical criteria in Part A (Adult Listings) can also be applied in assessing disability in people under 18 years if the disease processes have a similar effect on adults and younger people.

Part B

This section contains the list of deficiencies over medical criteria that apply only to the evaluation of impairments of persons under 18 years. Certain criteria in Part A does not pay attention to the effects of disease processes such as children, ie, when the disease process is usually found in children or when the process the disease differs in its effects on children and adults.

Additional criteria are included in Part B (Registration for children) and value categories are, to the extent possible, the number of a relationship with their counterparts in Part A. In assessing the disability of a person under the age of 18, Part B, will be used first. If the medical criteria in Part B do not apply, then the medical criteria in Part A will be used.

The criteria for the list of deficiencies apply only to a multi-step sequential evaluation stages. At this stage, the presence of an impairment that meets the criteria of the list of deficiencies (or is of equal severity) is usually sufficient to establish that an individual who is not working is disabled.

However, the absence of an impairment level does not mean listing the individual is not disabled. Instead, it merely requires the adjudicator to move to the next step and apply other rules to resolve the issue of disability.