Social Security Disability Law: News and Facts

Your mental residual functional capacity form documents what sort of work activities you can currently do. It documents which tasks you’re capable of doing regularly, despite your disability and related treatments (i.e., taking antidepressants or attending therapy sessions). The SSA reviews your mental residual functional capacity to determine whether you can perform previously held job tasks or any other, similar kind of work. In determining your mental residual functional capacity, the SSA looks at both medical and non-medical evidence. For medical issues, the agency reviews your condition’s history, test results, diagnoses, treatments, responses, symptoms and current prognosis. For non-medical issues, the SSA reads reports submitted by people who know you and your condition well, including how it affects your daily life. The mental residual functional capacity assessment helps the SSA determine if you are able to: -Complete tasks on a schedule -Understand, remember and complete inst...

 The Social Security Administration, or SSA, evaluates all claims with a five-step sequential evaluation process. Steps 4 and 5 of the evaluation are the most commons ways an individual is found disabled. Meaning, these ways meet the SSA’s definition of disability requiring an individual to be incapable of performing work at substantial gainful levels for a minimum of 12 months. Steps 4 and 5 of the evaluation consider whether the individual is able to not only perform his/her past relevant work but also whether he/she is able to perform any other work listed in the national economy. In determining whether you are capable of working, the SSA will first determine your physical or mental capabilities, known as your residual functional capacity, or RFC. Your RFC is the MOST you can do in spite of your medical conditions, not the least but the most.  You will be evaluated on not only how much you can and carry, but on how much you can walk, sit, stand, reach overhead, bend over, a...