My doctor says I’m disabled. So why haven’t I been approved?
According to Social Security, you have to meet their standards of disability. These standards for determining disability are much stricter than your doctor’s standards. In order to be declared disabled by social security, you must meet the following criteria:
- You are not involved in any substantial gainful activity (In other words, you are not doing a job that earns you more than $860 per month in 2006)
- You have a severe mental or physical impairment that has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months
- You are unable to perform any past work
- You are unable to perform or to be trained to perform any other less demanding work
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