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- 20 CFR 404.1503 · Who makes disability and blindness determinations.
- 20 CFR 404.1503a · a Program integrity.
- 20 CFR 404.1503b · b Evidence from excluded medical sources of evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1504 · Decisions by other governmental agencies and nongovernmental entities.
- 20 CFR 404.1505 · Basic definition of disability.
- 20 CFR 404.1506 · When we will not consider your impairment.
- 20 CFR 404.1508 · [Reserved]
- 20 CFR 404.1509 · How long the impairment must last.
- 20 CFR 404.1510 · Meaning of substantial gainful activity.
- 20 CFR 404.1511 · Definition of a disabling impairment.
- 20 CFR 404.1512 · Responsibility for evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1513 · Categories of evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1513a · a Evidence from our Federal or State agency medical or psychological consultants.
- 20 CFR 404.1514 · When we will purchase existing evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1515 · Where and how to submit evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1516 · If you fail to submit medical and other evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1517 · Consultative examination at our expense.
- 20 CFR 404.1518 · If you do not appear at a consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519 · The consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519a · a When we will purchase a consultative examination and how we will use it.
- 20 CFR 404.1519b · b When we will not purchase a consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519f · f Type of purchased examinations.
- 20 CFR 404.1519g · g Who we will select to perform a consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519h · h Your medical source.
- 20 CFR 404.1519i · i Other sources for consultative examinations.
- 20 CFR 404.1519j · j Objections to the medical source designated to perform the consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519k · k Purchase of medical examinations, laboratory tests, and other services.
- 20 CFR 404.1519m · m Diagnostic tests or procedures.
- 20 CFR 404.1519n · n Informing the medical source of examination scheduling, report content, and signature requirements.
- 20 CFR 404.1519o · o When a properly signed consultative examination report has not been received.
- 20 CFR 404.1519p · p Reviewing reports of consultative examinations.
- 20 CFR 404.1519q · q Conflict of interest.
- 20 CFR 404.1519s · s Authorizing and monitoring the consultative examination.
- 20 CFR 404.1519t · t Consultative examination oversight.
- 20 CFR 404.1520 · Evaluation of disability in general.
- 20 CFR 404.1520a · a Evaluation of mental impairments.
- 20 CFR 404.1520b · b How we consider evidence.
- 20 CFR 404.1520c · c How we consider and articulate medical opinions and prior administrative medical findings for claims filed on or after March 27, 2017.
- 20 CFR 404.1521 · Establishing that you have a medically determinable impairment(s).
- 20 CFR 404.1522 · What we mean by an impairment(s) that is not severe.
- 20 CFR 404.1523 · Multiple impairments.
- 20 CFR 404.1525 · Listing of Impairments in appendix 1.
- 20 CFR 404.1526 · Medical equivalence.
- 20 CFR 404.1527 · Evaluating opinion evidence for claims filed before March 27, 2017.
- 20 CFR 404.1528 · [Reserved]
- 20 CFR 404.1529 · How we evaluate symptoms, including pain.
- 20 CFR 404.1530 · Need to follow prescribed treatment.
- 20 CFR 404.1535 · How we will determine whether your drug addiction or alcoholism is a contributing factor material to the determination of disability.
- 20 CFR 404.1545 · Your residual functional capacity.
- 20 CFR 404.1546 · Responsibility for assessing your residual functional capacity.
- 20 CFR 404.1560 · When we will consider your vocational background.
- 20 CFR 404.1562 · Medical-vocational profiles showing an inability to make an adjustment to other work.
- 20 CFR 404.1563 · Your age as a vocational factor.
- 20 CFR 404.1564 · Your education as a vocational factor.
- 20 CFR 404.1565 · Your work experience as a vocational factor.
- 20 CFR 404.1566 · Work which exists in the national economy.
- 20 CFR 404.1567 · Physical exertion requirements.
- 20 CFR 404.1568 · Skill requirements.
- 20 CFR 404.1569 · Listing of Medical-Vocational Guidelines in appendix 2.
- 20 CFR 404.1569a · a Exertional and nonexertional limitations.
- 20 CFR 404.1571 · General.
- 20 CFR 404.1572 · What we mean by substantial gainful activity.
- 20 CFR 404.1573 · General information about work activity.
- 20 CFR 404.1574 · Evaluation guides if you are an employee.
- 20 CFR 404.1574a · a When and how we will average your earnings.
- 20 CFR 404.1575 · Evaluation guides if you are self-employed.
- 20 CFR 404.1576 · Impairment-related work expenses.
- 20 CFR 404.1577 · Disability defined for widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses for monthly benefits payable for months prior to January 1991.
- 20 CFR 404.1578 · How we determine disability for widows, widowers, and surviving divorced spouses for monthly benefits payable for months prior to January 1991.
- 20 CFR 404.1579 · How we will determine whether your disability continues or ends.
- 20 CFR 404.1581 · Meaning of blindness as defined in the law.
- 20 CFR 404.1582 · A period of disability based on blindness.
- 20 CFR 404.1583 · How we determine disability for blind persons who are age 55 or older.
- 20 CFR 404.1584 · Evaluation of work activity of blind people.
- 20 CFR 404.1585 · Trial work period for persons age 55 or older who are blind.
- 20 CFR 404.1586 · Why and when we will stop your cash benefits.
- 20 CFR 404.1587 · Circumstances under which we may suspend and terminate your benefits before we make a determination.
- 20 CFR 404.1588 · Your responsibility to tell us of events that may change your disability status.
- 20 CFR 404.1589 · We may conduct a review to find out whether you continue to be disabled.
- 20 CFR 404.1590 · When and how often we will conduct a continuing disability review.
- 20 CFR 404.1591 · If your medical recovery was expected and you returned to work.
- 20 CFR 404.1592 · The trial work period.
- 20 CFR 404.1592a · a The reentitlement period.
- 20 CFR 404.1592b · b What is expedited reinstatement?
- 20 CFR 404.1592c · c Who is entitled to expedited reinstatement?
- 20 CFR 404.1592d · d How do I request reinstatement?
- 20 CFR 404.1592e · e How do we determine provisional benefits?
- 20 CFR 404.1592f · f How do we determine reinstated benefits?
- 20 CFR 404.1593 · Medical evidence in continuing disability review cases.
- 20 CFR 404.1594 · How we will determine whether your disability continues or ends.
- 20 CFR 404.1595 · When we determine that you are not now disabled.
- 20 CFR 404.1596 · Circumstances under which we may suspend and terminate your benefits before we make a determination.
- 20 CFR 404.1597 · After we make a determination that you are not now disabled.
- 20 CFR 404.1597a · a Continued benefits pending appeal of a medical cessation determination.
- 20 CFR 404.1598 · If you become disabled by another impairment(s).
- 20 CFR 404.1599 · Work incentive experiments and rehabilitation demonstration projects in the disability program.
- 20 CFR Appendix 1 to Subpart P of Part 404 · Appendix 1 to Subpart P of Part 404—Listing of Impairments
- 20 CFR Appendix 2 to Subpart P of Part 404 · Appendix 2 to Subpart P of Part 404—Medical-Vocational Guidelines
- 20 CFR 404.1601 · Purpose and scope.
- 20 CFR 404.1602 · Definitions.