EDPNA CORRECT STUDYS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Disability - ✔✔the inability to do any substantial gainful activity by reason of any
medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result
in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not
less than 12 months.
- To meet this definition, you must have a severe impairment(s) that makes you unable
to do your past relevant work or any other substantial gainful work that exists in the
national economy.
- If your severe impairment(s) does not meet or medically equal a listing in appendix 1,
we will assess your residual functional capacity. We will use this RFC assessment to
determine if you can do your past relevant work.
- If we find that you cannot do your past relevant work, we will use the same RFC
assessment and your vocational factors of age, education, and work experience to
determine if you can do other work.
✔✔Residual Functional Capacity Assessment (RFC) 404.1506 - ✔✔the purpose
of______________ is to identify how your current limitations prevent you from meeting
the physical, sensory, mental, and other requirements of the workplace.
✔✔Medically Determinable Impairment (MDI) 404.1521 416.921 - ✔✔Your
impairment(s) must result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities
that can be shown by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic
techniques.
- Therefore, a physical or mental impairment must be established by objective medical
evidence from an acceptable medical source.
- We will not use your statement of symptoms, a diagnosis, or a medical opinion to
establish the existence of an impairment(s).
✔✔Non-Severe Impairment 404.1522 416.922 - ✔✔If your impairment does not
significantly limit your ability either physically or mentally to do basic activities.
examples:
- walking, standing, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling
, - Capacities of seeing, hearing & speaking
- Understanding, Carrying out, remembering, simple instructions
- Use of judgement
- Responding appropriately to supervision, co-workers, & usual work situations
- Dealing with changes in routine work settings
✔✔Multiple Impairments 404.1523 416.923 - ✔✔1. Unrelated Severe Impairments: We
cannot combine two or more unrelated severe impairments to meet the 12-month
duration test.
2. Concurrent Impairments: If you have two or more concurrent impairments that, when
considered in combination, are severe, we must determine whether the combined effect
of your impairments can be expected to continue to be severe for 12 months.
3. Combined Effect: In determining whether your physical or mental impairment(s) are
of a sufficient medical severity that such impairment(s) could be the basis of eligibility
under the law, we will consider the combined effect of all of your impairments without
regard to whether any such impairment, if considered separately, would be of sufficient
severity.
✔✔Who makes disability determinations? 404.1503 416.903 - ✔✔Reserved
commissioners of SSA
- A treating doctor helps us to understand the impairments & limitations.
- A doctor stating you are "disabled" or "cannot work" is not always helpful
- Initial & Recon Decisions - made by state vocational/disability determination services.
They are authorized by the commissioners of SSA.
Hearing - ALJ
✔✔Claimant is in charge of proving to SSA he/she is blind/disabled.
- SSA responsibility is development (10/20 days for records to come in) 1 FU request -
then they have 10 days.
- SSA will request CEs if needed - ✔✔Who is responsible for evidence? 404.1512
406.1512
✔✔Categories of Evidence 404.1502 404.1513 416.902 416.913 - ✔✔1. Objective
Medical Evidence
2. Acceptable Medical Source
3. Other sources
✔✔Objective Medical Evidence - ✔✔Medical signs that can be observed through
acceptable clinical diagnostics techniques, lab findings or both.
example: evidence of reduced joint motion, muscle spasm, sensory deficit or motor
disruption.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Disability - ✔✔the inability to do any substantial gainful activity by reason of any
medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result
in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not
less than 12 months.
- To meet this definition, you must have a severe impairment(s) that makes you unable
to do your past relevant work or any other substantial gainful work that exists in the
national economy.
- If your severe impairment(s) does not meet or medically equal a listing in appendix 1,
we will assess your residual functional capacity. We will use this RFC assessment to
determine if you can do your past relevant work.
- If we find that you cannot do your past relevant work, we will use the same RFC
assessment and your vocational factors of age, education, and work experience to
determine if you can do other work.
✔✔Residual Functional Capacity Assessment (RFC) 404.1506 - ✔✔the purpose
of______________ is to identify how your current limitations prevent you from meeting
the physical, sensory, mental, and other requirements of the workplace.
✔✔Medically Determinable Impairment (MDI) 404.1521 416.921 - ✔✔Your
impairment(s) must result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities
that can be shown by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic
techniques.
- Therefore, a physical or mental impairment must be established by objective medical
evidence from an acceptable medical source.
- We will not use your statement of symptoms, a diagnosis, or a medical opinion to
establish the existence of an impairment(s).
✔✔Non-Severe Impairment 404.1522 416.922 - ✔✔If your impairment does not
significantly limit your ability either physically or mentally to do basic activities.
examples:
- walking, standing, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling
, - Capacities of seeing, hearing & speaking
- Understanding, Carrying out, remembering, simple instructions
- Use of judgement
- Responding appropriately to supervision, co-workers, & usual work situations
- Dealing with changes in routine work settings
✔✔Multiple Impairments 404.1523 416.923 - ✔✔1. Unrelated Severe Impairments: We
cannot combine two or more unrelated severe impairments to meet the 12-month
duration test.
2. Concurrent Impairments: If you have two or more concurrent impairments that, when
considered in combination, are severe, we must determine whether the combined effect
of your impairments can be expected to continue to be severe for 12 months.
3. Combined Effect: In determining whether your physical or mental impairment(s) are
of a sufficient medical severity that such impairment(s) could be the basis of eligibility
under the law, we will consider the combined effect of all of your impairments without
regard to whether any such impairment, if considered separately, would be of sufficient
severity.
✔✔Who makes disability determinations? 404.1503 416.903 - ✔✔Reserved
commissioners of SSA
- A treating doctor helps us to understand the impairments & limitations.
- A doctor stating you are "disabled" or "cannot work" is not always helpful
- Initial & Recon Decisions - made by state vocational/disability determination services.
They are authorized by the commissioners of SSA.
Hearing - ALJ
✔✔Claimant is in charge of proving to SSA he/she is blind/disabled.
- SSA responsibility is development (10/20 days for records to come in) 1 FU request -
then they have 10 days.
- SSA will request CEs if needed - ✔✔Who is responsible for evidence? 404.1512
406.1512
✔✔Categories of Evidence 404.1502 404.1513 416.902 416.913 - ✔✔1. Objective
Medical Evidence
2. Acceptable Medical Source
3. Other sources
✔✔Objective Medical Evidence - ✔✔Medical signs that can be observed through
acceptable clinical diagnostics techniques, lab findings or both.
example: evidence of reduced joint motion, muscle spasm, sensory deficit or motor
disruption.
