As I have discussed extensively on this blog and on my web sites, the ultimate question in any Social Security disability case boils down to this – would you be able to perform reliably a simple, entry-level job 8 hours a day, 5 days a week?
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As a large federal bureaucracy, the Social Security Administration has a dizzying array of procedures and forms that it uses to process disability cases. Social Security procedure manuals require disability adjudicators and judges to use something called a "sequential evaluation process" to evaluate every disability case. In case you are interested, the five steps of the process are as follows:
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Back in January, I answered a question from a blog reader about Social Security disability credits. That reader wondered why Social Security had advised her that she had "run out of credits."
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I read an interesting article on the BBC News feed that spoke about a link between diabetes complications and a Vitamin B-1 (thiamine) deficiency. According to the article, diabetics expel Vitamin B-1 from their bodies at a rate 15 times that of non-diabetics. Thiamine apparently helps ward off common diabetic complications such as heart disease and eye problems.
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I recently ran across a very useful disability blog called "Disability Doc," published by a medical doctor named Keith Holden. Dr. Holden has extensive experience in the Social Security world, having been involved in training State Agency adjudicators and consultants.
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