Glossary of Social Security Disability Terms
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All Disability Terms
- Activities of Daily Living
- Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Administrative Law Judge (ALJ)
- Adult Child
- Adult Disability Checklist
- Affective Disorders
- Amputations
- Anemia
- Aneurysms of The Heart
- Anxiety Related Disorders
- Appeal
- Appeals Council
- Application For Benefits
- Arrhythmias
- Asthma
- Auxiliary Benefits
- Award Letter
- Back Pay
- Benefits
- Benefits Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)
- Blind Work Expenses (BWE)
- Blindness
- Blue Book
- Bone Fractions
- Bronchiectasis
- Cardiomyopathies
- Cash Benefits
- Child
- Child Disability Report
- Childhood Listings (Part B)
- Chronic Heart Failure
- Chronic Liver Disease
- Chronic Pulmonary Insufficiency
- Chronic Venous Insufficiency
- Claimant
- Compassionate Allowance Initiative
- Concentration Persistence or Pace
- Congenital Heart Disaease
- Consultative Examination
- Consultative Examination Report
- Consultative Examiner
- Continuing Disability Review
- Contraction of Peripheral Visual Fields in The Better Eye
- Cor Pulmonale
- Cost of Living Adjustment
- Credits
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Date Last Insured
- Deemed Income
- Denial Letter
- Diagnosis
- Direct Deposit
- Disability
- Disability Advocate
- Disability Back Pay
- Disability Determination Services
- Disability Examiner
- Disability File
- Disability in Children
- Disability Interview
- Earned Income
- Episodes of Decompensation
- Exertional Capacity
- Expedited Reinstatement
- Extended Period of Eligibility (for SSDI)
- Federal Benefit Rate
- Federal Court Review
- FICA
- Five-month Waiting Period
- Five-Step Sequential Evaluation Process
- Freedom of Information Act
- Full Retirement Age
- Granulomatous Colitis
- Growth Impairments
- Hearing Loss
- Heart Transplants
- Heart Valve Disease
- Heavy Work
- Hemophilia
- Hereditary Telangiectasia
- High Blood Pressure
- Hyperlipidemia
- Impairment of Visual Accuity
- In-Kind Income
- Income (SSI)
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Ischemic Heart Disease
- Joint Dysfunction
- Kawasaki Syndrome
- Kidney Disease
- Labyrinth Vestibular Dysfunction
- Light Work
- Listing of Impairments
- Liver Transplant
- Loss of Visual Efficiency
- Lung Transplant
- Medical Disability Criteria
- Medical Experts
- Medical Reports
- Medical Source Statement
- Medical Vocational Allowance
- Medically Determinable Impairment
- Medicare
- Medium Work
- Mental Examination
- Mental Health Disorders
- Mental Residual Functional Capacity
- Mental Retardation
- Mycobacterial Infection
- Myelofibrosis
- Nephrotic Syndrome
- Non-Exertional Capacity
- Non-Medical Disability Criteria
- Obsruction of The Esophagus
- Office of Central Operations
- Office of Disability Adjudication And Review Odar
- Ophthalmoplegia
- Organic Mental Disorders
- Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Peripheral Arterial Disease
- Personality Disorders
- Physical Health Disorders
- Physical Residual Functional Capacity
- Pneumoconiosis
- Polycythemia Vera
- Presumptive Disability
- Privacy Act
- Prognosis
- Protection And Advocacy For Beneficiaries of Social Security (PABSS) Program
- Protective Filing Date
- Recent Work
- Reconsideration
- Reconstructive Surgery
- Red Book
- Regional Enteritis
- Residual Functional Capacity
- Residual Functional Capacity Assessment (RFC Assessment)
- Residual Functional Capacity Form
- Resources (SSI)
- Rheumatic Fever
- Sedentary Work
- Semiskilled Work
- Severe Medical Condition
- Sickle Cell Disease
- Skilled Work
- Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
- Social Functioning
- Social Security Administration
- Social Security Disability Attorney
- Social Security Disability Insurance
- Social Security Office
- Social Security Program Operations Manual (POMS)
- Soft Tissue Injuries
- Somatoform Disorders
- Speech Loss
- Spine Disorder
- State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
- Substantial Gainful Activity
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Survivor Benefits
- Survivor Benefits For Children
- Survivor Benefits For Widows
- Terminal Illness Teri Cases
- Thrombocytopenia
- Title II Disability Insurance
- Treating Source
- Trial Work Period (SSDI)
- Unearned Income
- Unskilled Work
- Unsuccessful Work Attempts
- Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Urgent Case Request
- Vocational Factors
- Wages
- Waiting Period
- Weight Loss
- Work Credits
- Work Incentives
- Work Incentives Planning And Assistance (WIPA)
- Work That Exists in The National Economy
- Wounded Warrior Initiative