Here are some of the most commonly used and most helpful Rulings, selected for your convenience.

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SSR 19-4p

Evaluating Cases Involving Primary Headache Disorders

SSR 19-3p

Requesting Reconsideration or Hearing by an Administrative Law Judge

SSR 19-2p

Evaluating Cases Involving Obesity

SSR 19-1p

Titles II and XVI: Effect of the Decision in Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)on Cases Pending at the Appeals Council

SSR 18-03p

Titles II and XVI: Failure to Follow Prescribed Treatment

SSR 18-02p

SSR 18-2p: Titles II and XVI: Determining he Established Onset Date (EOD) in Blindness Claims

SSR 18-01p

Titles II and XVI: Determining the Established Onset Date (EOD) in Disability Claims

SSR 17-4p

Titles II and XVI: Responsibility for Developing Written Evidence

SSR 17-3p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)

SSR 17-2p

Titles II and XVI: Evidence Needed by Adjudicators at the Hearings and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process to Make Findings about Medical Equivalence

SSR 17-1p

Titles II and XVI: Reopening Based on Error on the Face of the Evidence-Effect of a Decision by the Supreme Court of the United States Finding a Law That We Applied To Be Unconstitutional

SSR 16-1p

Titles II and XVI: Fraud and Similar Fault Redeterminations Under Sections 205(U) and 1631(E)(7) of the Social Security Act

SSR 16-2p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Claims Involving Similar Fault in the Providing of Evidence

SSR 16-3p

Titles II And XVI: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims

SSR 16-4p

Titles II And XVI: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims

SSR 15-1p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Interstitial Cystitis (IC)

SSR 14-1p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)

SSR 14-2p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Diabetes Mellitus

SSR 14-3p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Endocrine Disorders Other Than Diabetes Mellitus

SSR 13-1p

Titles II and XVI: Agency Processes For Addressing Allegations of Unfairness, Prejudice, Partiality, Bias, Misconduct, or Discrimination by Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)

SSR 13-2p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DAA).

SSR 13-3p

Titles II and XVI: Appeal of an Initial Medical Disability Cessation Determination or Decision

SSR 12-2p

Title II: Determining Whether Work Performed in Self-Employment by Persons Who Are Blind Is Substantial Gainful Activity and Treatment of Income Resulting From the Randolph-Sheppard Act and Similar Programs

SSR 12-2p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Fibromyalgia

SSR 11-1p

Titles II and XVI: Procedures for Handling Requests to File Subsequent Applications for Disability Benefits

SSR 11-2p

Titles II and XVI: Documenting and Evaluating Disability in Young Adults

SSR 09-1p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability Under the Functional Equivalence Rule "The "Whole Child" Approach

SSR 09-2p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "Documenting a Child's Impairment-Related Limitations

SSR 09-3p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Acquiring and Using Information"

SSR 09-4p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Attending and Completing Tasks"

SSR 09-5p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Interacting and Relating With Others"

SSR 09-6p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Moving About and Manipulating Objects"

SSR 09-7p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Caring for Yourself"

SSR 09-8p

Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Health and Physical Well-Being"

SSR 07-01p

Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Visual Field Loss Using Automated Static Threshold Perimetry

SSR 06-03p Rescinded

Titles II and XVI: Considering Opinions and Other Evidence From Sources Who Are Not "Acceptable Medical Sources" in Disability Claims; Considering Decisions on Disability by Other Governmental and Nongovernmental Agencies (SSR  06-3p)

SSR 06-2p

Title II: Adjudicating Child Relationship Under Section 216(h)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act When Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Test Shows Sibling Relationship Between Claimant and a Child of the Worker Who Is Entitled Under Section 216(h)(3) of the Social Security

SSR 06-1p

Evaluating Cases Involving Tremolite Asbestos-Related Impairments

SSR 05-3p

Title XVI: Determining Continuing Disability at Step 2 of the Medical Improvement Review Standard Sequential Evaluation Process for Children Under Age 18 " Functional Equivalence

SSR 05-2

Determination of Substantial Gainful Activity if Substantial Work Activity is Discontinued or Reduced -- Unsuccessful Work Attempt

SSR 05-1c

Disability Insurance Benefits And Supplemental Security Income "Whether Past Relevant Work Must Exist In Significant Numbers In The National Economy 

SSR 04-1p

Attestation as an Alternative Signature 

SSR 03-3p

Evaluation of Disability and Blindness in Initial Claims for Individuals Aged 65 or Older 

SSR 03-2p

Evaluating Cases Involving Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome 

SSR 03-1p

Development and Evaluation of Disability Claims Involving Postpolio Sequelae 

SSR 02-2p

Evaluation of Interstitial Cystitis  (Linked version of Interstitial Cystitis Ruling

SSR 02-1p Rescinded

Evaluation of Obesity 

SSR 00-4p

Vocational Expert And Vocational Specialist Evidence 

SSR 98-1p

Determining Medical Equivalence in Childhood Disability Claims When a Child has Marked Limitations in Cognition and Speech 

SSR 96-1p

Court Decisions 

SSR 96-2p Rescinded

Treating Source Medical Opinions 

SSR 96-3p

Severe Impairments 

SSR 96-4p

Exertional and Nonexertional Limitations 

SSR 96-5p Rescinded

Medical Source Opinions on Issues Reserved To the Commissioner 

SSR 96-6p

State Agency Medical and Psychological Consultants 

SSR 96-7p Superseded

Credibility of an Individual's Statements.      See also Pain 

SSR 96-8p

Residual Functional Capacity 

SSR 96-9p

Occupational Base for Sedentary Work 

SSR 95-1p

Finding Good Cause for Missing The Deadline to Request Administrative Review 

SSR 91-2p

Disclosure of Appeals Council Work Documents 

SSR 91-5p

Mental Incapacity and Good Cause for Missing the Deadline to Request Review 

SSR 85-15

Capability to do Other Work — The Medical-Vocational Rules as a Framework for Evaluating Solely Nonexertional Impairments 

SSR 85-16

Residual Functional Capacity for Mental Impairments 

SSR 83-10

Other Work - Medical-Vocational Guidelines 

SSR 83-11

Other Work - Exertional Rules Met 

SSR 83-12

Exertional Limitations Between Ranges of Work 

SSR 83-14

Combining Exertional and Nonexertional Impairments 

SSR 83-20 Rescinded

Onset of Disability 

SSR 82-59 Rescinded

Failure To Follow Prescribed Treatment

SSR 82-61

Past Relevant Work " The Particular Job or the Occupation as Generally Performed  

SSR 82-62

Claimant's Capacity to do Past Relevant Work, in General 

SSR 82-63

Medical-Vocational Profiles Showing an Inability to Make an Adjustment to Other Work