Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: November 8, 2024) |
Title 20 - Employees' Benefits |
Chapter III - Social Security Administration |
Part 404 - Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (1950- ) |
Subpart P - Determining Disability and Blindness |
Widows, Widowers, and Surviving Divorced Spouses |
§ 404.1577 - Disability defined for widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses for monthly benefits payable for months prior to January 1991. |
§ 404.1578 - How we determine disability for widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses for monthly benefits payable for months prior to January 1991. |
§ 404.1579 - How we will determine whether your disability continues or ends. |
Standards to Be Used in Determining when a Consultative Examination Will Be Obtained in Connection With Disability Determinations |
§ 404.1519 - The consultative examination. |
§ 404.1519a - When we will purchase a consultative examination and how we will use it. |
§ 404.1519b - When we will not purchase a consultative examination. |
Substantial Gainful Activity |
§ 404.1571 - General. |
§ 404.1572 - What we mean by substantial gainful activity. |
§ 404.1573 - General information about work activity. |
§ 404.1574 - Evaluation guides if you are an employee. |
§ 404.1575 - Evaluation guides if you are self-employed. |
§ 404.1576 - Impairment-related work expenses. |
§ 404.1574a - When and how we will average your earnings. |
Definition of Disability |
§ 404.1505 - Basic definition of disability. |
§ 404.1506 - When we will not consider your impairment. |
§ 404.1508 - [Reserved] |
§ 404.1509 - How long the impairment must last. |
§ 404.1510 - Meaning of substantial gainful activity. |
§ 404.1511 - Definition of a disabling impairment. |
Medical Considerations |
§ 404.1525 - Listing of Impairments in appendix 1. |
§ 404.1526 - Medical equivalence. |
§ 404.1527 - Evaluating opinion evidence for claims filed before March 27, 2017. |
§ 404.1528 - [Reserved] |
§ 404.1529 - How we evaluate symptoms, including pain. |
§ 404.1530 - Need to follow prescribed treatment. |
§ 404.1535 - How we will determine whether your drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the determination of disability. |
§ 404.1536 - Treatment required for individuals whose drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the determination of disability. |
§ 404.1537 - What we mean by appropriate treatment. |
§ 404.1538 - What we mean by approved institutions or facilities. |
§ 404.1539 - How we consider whether treatment is available. |
§ 404.1540 - Evaluating compliance with the treatment requirements. |
§ 404.1541 - Establishment and use of referral and monitoring agencies. |
Authorizing and Monitoring the Referral Process |
§ 404.1519s - Authorizing and monitoring the consultative examination. |
Blindness |
§ 404.1581 - Meaning of blindness as defined in the law. |
§ 404.1582 - A period of disability based on blindness. |
§ 404.1583 - How we determine disability for blind persons who are age 55 or older. |
§ 404.1584 - Evaluation of work activity of blind people. |
§ 404.1585 - Trial work period for persons age 55 or older who are blind. |
§ 404.1586 - Why and when we will stop your cash benefits. |
§ 404.1587 - Circumstances under which we may suspend and terminate your benefits before we make a determination. |
Procedures to Monitor the Consultative Examination |
§ 404.1519t - Consultative examination oversight. |
Evaluation of Disability |
§ 404.1520 - Evaluation of disability in general. |
§ 404.1521 - Establishing that you have a medically determinable impairment(s). |
§ 404.1522 - What we mean by an impairment(s) that is not severe. |
§ 404.1523 - Multiple impairments. |
§ 404.1520a - Evaluation of mental impairments. |
§ 404.1520b - How we consider evidence. |
§ 404.1520c - xxx |
Determinations |
§ 404.1503 - Who makes disability and blindness determinations. |
§ 404.1504 - Decisions by other governmental agencies and nongovernmental entities. |
§ 404.1503a - Program integrity. |
§ 404.1503b - Evidence from excluded medical sources of evidence. |
General |
§ 404.1501 - Scope of subpart. |
§ 404.1502 - Definitions for this subpart. |
Evidence |
§ 404.1512 - Responsibility for evidence. |
§ 404.1513 - Categories of evidence. |
§ 404.1514 - When we will purchase existing evidence. |
§ 404.1515 - Where and how to submit evidence. |
§ 404.1516 - If you fail to submit medical and other evidence. |
§ 404.1517 - Consultative examination at our expense. |
§ 404.1518 - If you do not appear at a consultative examination. |
§ 404.1513a - xxx |
Standards for the Type of Referral and for Report Content |
§ 404.1519f - Type of purchased examinations. |
§ 404.1519g - Who we will select to perform a consultative examination. |
§ 404.1519h - Your medical source. |
§ 404.1519i - Other sources for consultative examinations. |
§ 404.1519j - Objections to the medical source designated to perform the consultative examination. |
§ 404.1519k - Purchase of medical examinations, laboratory tests, and other services. |
§ 404.1519m - Diagnostic tests or procedures. |
§ 404.1519n - Informing the medical source of examination scheduling, report content, and signature requirements. |
§ 404.1519o - When a properly signed consultative examination report has not been received. |
§ 404.1519p - Reviewing reports of consultative examinations. |
§ 404.1519q - Conflict of interest. |
Residual Functional Capacity |
§ 404.1545 - Your residual functional capacity. |
§ 404.1546 - Responsibility for assessing your residual functional capacity. |
Vocational Considerations |
§ 404.1560 - When we will consider your vocational background. |
§ 404.1561 - Your ability to do work depends upon your residual functional capacity. |
§ 404.1562 - Medical-vocational profiles showing an inability to make an adjustment to other work. |
§ 404.1563 - Your age as a vocational factor. |
§ 404.1564 - Your education as a vocational factor. |
§ 404.1565 - Your work experience as a vocational factor. |
§ 404.1566 - Work which exists in the national economy. |
§ 404.1567 - Physical exertion requirements. |
§ 404.1568 - Skill requirements. |
§ 404.1569 - Listing of Medical-Vocational Guidelines in appendix 2. |
§ 404.1569a - Exertional and nonexertional limitations. |
Continuing or Stopping Disability |
§ 404.1588 - Your responsibility to tell us of events that may change your disability status. |
§ 404.1589 - We may conduct a review to find out whether you continue to be disabled. |
§ 404.1590 - When and how often we will conduct a continuing disability review. |
§ 404.1591 - If your medical recovery was expected and you returned to work. |
§ 404.1592 - The trial work period. |
§ 404.1593 - Medical evidence in continuing disability review cases. |
§ 404.1594 - How we will determine whether your disability continues or ends. |
§ 404.1595 - When we determine that you are not now disabled. |
§ 404.1596 - Circumstances under which we may suspend and terminate your benefits before we make a determination. |
§ 404.1597 - After we make a determination that you are not now disabled. |
§ 404.1598 - If you become disabled by another impairment(s). |
§ 404.1599 - Work incentive experiments and rehabilitation demonstration projects in the disability program. |
§ 404.1592a - The reentitlement period. |
§ 404.1592b - What is expedited reinstatement? |
§ 404.1592c - Who is entitled to expedited reinstatement? |
§ 404.1592d - How do I request reinstatement? |
§ 404.1592e - How do we determine provisional benefits? |
§ 404.1592f - How do we determine reinstated benefits? |
§ 404.1597a - Continued benefits pending appeal of a medical cessation determination. |
Appendix 1 to Subpart P - Listing of Impairments |
Appendix 2 to Subpart P - Medical-Vocational Guidelines |
Appendix 1 to Subpart P of Part 404 - —Listing of Impairments |
Appendix 2 to Subpart P of Part 404 - Medical-Vocational Guidelines |