Social Security Disability Applications & Appeals - Stegner Law Firm, LLC in Camden, SC

Help for Filing Social Security Disability Applications & Appeals

As stated in the Code of Federal Regulation, if you are an adult, “The law defines disability as the inability to do any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. 

To meet this definition, you must have a severe impairment(s) that makes you unable to do your past relevant work or any other substantial gainful work that exists in the national economy.” (20 C.F.R. 404.1505(a) & 416.905(a)). If you are a child “under age 18, [SSA] will consider you disabled if you have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment or combination of impairments that causes marked and severe functional limitations, and that can be expected to cause death or that has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.” (20 C.F.R. 416.906).