Here are some of the most commonly used and most helpful Rulings, selected for your convenience.
Social Security provides a database of Rulings. Sometimes SSA pages are not up-to-date.
Evaluating Cases Involving Primary Headache Disorders |
|
Requesting Reconsideration or Hearing by an Administrative Law Judge |
|
Evaluating Cases Involving Obesity |
|
Titles II and XVI: Effect of the Decision in Lucia v. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)on Cases Pending at the Appeals Council |
|
Titles II and XVI: Failure to Follow Prescribed Treatment |
|
SSR 18-2p: Titles II and XVI: Determining he Established Onset Date (EOD) in Blindness Claims |
|
Titles II and XVI: Determining the Established Onset Date (EOD) in Disability Claims |
|
Titles II and XVI: Responsibility for Developing Written Evidence |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
Titles II and XVI: Fraud and Similar Fault Redeterminations Under Sections 205(U) and 1631(E)(7) of the Social Security Act |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Claims Involving Similar Fault in the Providing of Evidence |
|
Titles II And XVI: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims |
|
Titles II And XVI: Evaluation of Symptoms in Disability Claims |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Interstitial Cystitis (IC) |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Diabetes Mellitus |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Endocrine Disorders Other Than Diabetes Mellitus |
|
Titles II and XVI: Agency Processes For Addressing Allegations of Unfairness, Prejudice, Partiality, Bias, Misconduct, or Discrimination by Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DAA). |
|
Titles II and XVI: Appeal of an Initial Medical Disability Cessation Determination or Decision |
|
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 |
|
Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Fibromyalgia |
|
Titles II and XVI: Procedures for Handling Requests to File Subsequent Applications for Disability Benefits |
|
Titles II and XVI: Documenting and Evaluating Disability in Young Adults |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability Under the Functional Equivalence Rule "The "Whole Child" Approach |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "Documenting a Child's Impairment-Related Limitations |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Acquiring and Using Information" |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Attending and Completing Tasks" |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Interacting and Relating With Others" |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Moving About and Manipulating Objects" |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Caring for Yourself" |
|
Title XVI: Determining Childhood Disability "The Functional Equivalence Domain of "Health and Physical Well-Being" |
|
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) |
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 |
|
Evaluating Cases Involving Tremolite Asbestos-Related Impairments |
|
Title XVI: Determining Continuing Disability at Step 2 of the Medical Improvement Review Standard Sequential Evaluation Process for Children Under Age 18 " Functional Equivalence |
|
Determination of Substantial Gainful Activity if Substantial Work Activity is Discontinued or Reduced -- Unsuccessful Work Attempt |
|
Disability Insurance Benefits And Supplemental Security Income "Whether Past Relevant Work Must Exist In Significant Numbers In The National Economy |
|
Attestation as an Alternative Signature |
|
Evaluation of Disability and Blindness in Initial Claims for Individuals Aged 65 or Older |
|
Evaluating Cases Involving Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome |
|
Development and Evaluation of Disability Claims Involving Postpolio Sequelae |
|
Evaluation of Interstitial Cystitis (Linked version of Interstitial Cystitis Ruling) |
|
SSR 02-1p Rescinded |
Evaluation of Obesity |
Vocational Expert And Vocational Specialist Evidence |
|
Determining Medical Equivalence in Childhood Disability Claims When a Child has Marked Limitations in Cognition and Speech |
|
Court Decisions |
|
SSR 96-2p Rescinded |
Treating Source Medical Opinions |
Severe Impairments |
|
Exertional and Nonexertional Limitations |
|
SSR 96-5p Rescinded |
Medical Source Opinions on Issues Reserved To the Commissioner |
State Agency Medical and Psychological Consultants |
|
SSR 96-7p Superseded |
Credibility of an Individual's Statements. See also Pain |
Residual Functional Capacity |
|
Occupational Base for Sedentary Work |
|
Finding Good Cause for Missing The Deadline to Request Administrative Review |
|
Disclosure of Appeals Council Work Documents |
|
Mental Incapacity and Good Cause for Missing the Deadline to Request Review |
|
Capability to do Other Work — The Medical-Vocational Rules as a Framework for Evaluating Solely Nonexertional Impairments |
|
Residual Functional Capacity for Mental Impairments |
|
Other Work - Medical-Vocational Guidelines |
|
Other Work - Exertional Rules Met |
|
Exertional Limitations Between Ranges of Work |
|
Combining Exertional and Nonexertional Impairments |
|
SSR 83-20 Rescinded |
Onset of Disability |
SSR 82-59 Rescinded |
Failure To Follow Prescribed Treatment |
Past Relevant Work " The Particular Job or the Occupation as Generally Performed |
|
Claimant's Capacity to do Past Relevant Work, in General |
|
Medical-Vocational Profiles Showing an Inability to Make an Adjustment to Other Work |