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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
S SR 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 14-2 p	Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Diabetes Mellitus
SSR 1 4 -3 p	Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Endocrine Disorders Other Than Diabetes Mellitus
SSR 1 3 -1p	Titles II and XVI: Agency Processes For Addressing Allegations of Unfairness, Prejudice, Partiality, Bias, Misconduct, or Discrimination by Administrative Law Judges (ALJs)
SSR 1 3 -2 p	Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DAA).
SSR 1 3 -3 p	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

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