The Five Steps of Disability Determination
The Five Steps of Disability Determination
About Disability Determination by the Social Security Administration. Believe it not, your doctor cannot make your disability determination. That is whether or not you are disabled. In fact, the Social Security Administration has its own set of five distinct steps for disability determination. If you are unable to progress through these sequential evaluations successfully, then you will be found to be not disabled. What this ultimately means, is that the Social Security Administration believes there are jobs still out in the economy you are capable of doing despite your physical or mental limitations.
At times, this is very hard for claimants to not only understand but accept. They feel as though they are too ill or impaired to work a full-time job. However, it can be very frustrating to have someone tell you that you are capable of working at a job you’ve never heard of. And that is just what the Administration will tell you if you are not successful at one of the five steps along the way in determining whether a person is disabled.
