You Can Help Us Enhance Our Disability Process
Reading Time: 1 MinuteLast Updated: March 24, 2016
As a part of our commitment to bring you world-class services, Social Security is looking for ways to improve how we develop and evaluate medical evidence relating to severe limitations in attention, concentration, and persistence. The Social Security Act sets out a strict definition of disability. Our agency pays benefits to eligible people who can’t work because of a disabling mental or physical condition expected to last at least one year or result in death. This medical condition must prevent the person from doing not only their previous work, but also any other substantial work in the national economy.
Gathering and assessing medical evidence is a key part of how we make our decisions. On Wednesday, March 30, we will host our next National Disability Forum, Developing and Assessing Medical Evidence for Extreme Limitations in the Ability to Focus on Tasks.
The discussion will focus on the level of severity at which impairment-related limitations in attention, concentration, and persistence can prevent people from working. For example, at what point does the inability to focus cause enough ‘off task’ behavior that someone would be unable to do any job in the national economy? What are employer expectations around productivity and reasonable accommodations for affected people? Are there standard tests for assessing and evaluating these ailments, and who should be consulted to evaluate a person’s capacity to focus on job-related tasks?
Your input will help us further enhance our disability determination process. You can share your ideas about how our disability determination process can better serve individuals with extreme limitations in attention, concentration, and persistence on our IdeaScale page or by commenting below.
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Gina Clemons, Associate Commissioner, Office of Disability Policy
Gina Clemons, Associate Commissioner, Office of Disability Policy
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If you really want to improve the process, you should try speeding things up and stop rubber stamping denials to people who really need it. I have Epilepsy which affects m severely in my ability to work full time, plus an extremely painful nerve condition in my foot. I’ve been getting treatment for these for a year and a half, yet SS seems to think im fit to work full time. I can’t drive because of my condition, my meds have turned me into a zombie with horrible memory issues. I can barely walk on some days due to foot pain and it often keeps me up at night. Because I have bills to pay, im forced to stay at my retail job which I had to reduce to under 16 hours a week. Even half that is usually extremely taxing not only because my conditions, but because I have to downplay my limitations at work and push myself which in turn makes things worse. I’d love to ask someone at Social Security who they think wants to hire an epileptic doped up on meds with a foot condition that makes it difficult to stay on my feet. Do they really think there’s a job market for people like me? Especially with no high school diploma special training of any sort. Im blessed being able to get help from my parents, but if something were to happen to them, im out on the streets. I really don’t know how some of you can sleep at night knowing that you’re destroying lives. I’d really like the people who work at SS to take a real look at how their choices impact lives and potentially ruin them. Think about how many people have died, or even committed suicide because of your denials when they really needed it.
Shawn M.
Put my comments on there. What are you afraid of people will find the truth about the corrupt social security administration. Social Security talks the talk but cant walk the walk…
Shawn M.
Google Shawn McMurray Gulf War Vet and Read The Story..
Shawn M.
I want to clear this up. Okay the judge has no business bringing up the Gulf War and making idiot remarks about my service he wasnt there. Remember it was an air war my carrier only dropped 2000 ton of ammunition on Iraq. I was a refueler on the America floating in a sea of mines. I didn’t see Judge Gary Suttles there he talks alot of crap. He talked crap to the wrong vet and he knows it now I am not afraid of him. I have no quality of life now and I tell my wife I wished I got killed that night you would collect my death benefits I wouldn’t have to deal with the corrupt social security administration. From 1960 to 2006 the Social Security Administration gave over 20 million to Nazis War Criminals if that isn’t corrupt then I dont know what it is.You send our guys over there to
kill the Nazis then you pay them off.THAT IS A WAR CRIME!!! My world is my family I have lost everything since this accident. I didn’t ask to be hit that night. My family didn’t ask to be put in this position. If it took me to put a bullet in my head to get them my death benefits and out of this situation I would. Remember I should of got killed that night and if you as a husband and father where in my position you would understand.
Thank You
Shawn McMurray
Shawn M.
In 2012 I was hit by a truck that failed to yield to me. I was on a motorcycle the truck crushed my left side in broke all my ribs then my ribs went through my lungs and collapsed them my spleen and pancreas was crushed I was bleeding out through my spleen. Had to be life f lighted to Houston with a 30 percent chance to live. I can longer work lost my spleen, Had a CDL Turned it over to the state cant use it I cant pass the DOT physical. On tons of pain meds and lung meds . I hate everybody who put my family in this position. Had Judge Gary Suttles wanted to bring up my service to my country what the hell does the Gulf War 25 years ago got to do with me being hit by a truck in 2012. So i threw his ass under the bus for talking shit. Google Shawn McMurray Gulf War Vet read the story. 4 years later still fighting not for me for my family they suffered enough and I am tired. I will defeat the social security admin even if I have to put a bullet in my head. I will win.
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Shawn McMurray….
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other severe limits to working in addition to concentration, etc are neurological limits, like judgment of what someone else wants, visual spatial, visual perceptual; motor skill limits, limits in auditory processing, chronic pain, and mobility limits and needs for personal assistance to get around
Koba M.
Aftet 3 years of pending to be approved for SDI, my uncle was approved by ALJ last month and was told to bring statement for 3 years from the bank and prove how he paid his bills. His former roomate paid the half of his rent for only 6months, the examiner was very rood and was prying him to say that their were living together as a husband snd wife, even she is not living with him for more than 2 years. The officer wanted to know her social security number, where does she works and does she has Bank account. Do you think it was correct to ask about the person who was sharing a room, he was receiving Food Stamp by himself.Plus she was working as HHA overnigt and came home only once in 2 weeks. When the officer asked him how he paid the bills, he told him the he had some money saved before becoming sick and stop working, but now the money is gone, plus some family members was paying some of his bills.Because of some memory problems, he didn’t remember what happened 3 years ago, so he was forcing him to get The Reprep.Payee? He wsnts to know how his bills for 3 year, that he applied were paid. What he should do if he didn’t keep them?
Froilan j.
Yo entiendo los comentarios y me miró en ese espejo de todos ustedes ,lo que no e tiendo es porque darle tanta vuelta a un mismo problema ,entiendo que hay más preguntas que respuestas a tantas preguntas de personas que hablan con mucha verdad por las esperiencias difíciles por la que han tenido que pasar para poder sobrevivir con una emfermedad o discapacidad durante anos sin poder trabajar y sin tener una entrada económica para sobrevivir ,con esto quiero desir al seguro social, y creo con mayor respeto ,a lo que se refieren si dudan de la incapacidad o discapacidad de una persona ,tratando de generalizar de que todas las personas cometen frsude o sus médicos para tener benificios del SSA ,sus clientes es algo bochornoso o denigrante en el 1 er país del mundo ,ustedes deberían entonces que tener el personal con las herramientas realmente justas para evaluar una persona enferma y no ponerla en ex tela de juicio y la duda, creo que todo ciudadano de este país merese un respeto.