Social Security Disability Glossary
Social Security Disability law is a complicated topic and there are many that can be confusing. We've created this glossary of SSD to help you understand the many different legal topics associated with disability claims and cases. Please browse the list below to see definitions of many common social security disability . If you don't see the term listed that you're looking for, please use our Ask A Question form and we'll do our best to add the definition to our site.
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Disability Law Glossary
- Able-bodied
- Activities of Daily Living
- Administrative Law Judge
- Alleged Onset Date (AOD)
- Appeals Council
- Auxiliary Benefits
- Award Letter
- Back Pay
- Benefits Eligibility Screening Tool (BEST)
- Blue Book
- Closed Period
- Closed Period Benefits
- Comparability Test
- Compassionate Allowance
- Consultative Examination
- Continuing disability review
- Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA)
- Countable Income Test
- Credits
- Date Last Insured (DLI)
- Denial Letter
- Dire Need
- Disability
- Disability Advocate
- Disability Benefits
- Disability Determination Services
- Disability Examiner
- Disability File
- Disability Hearing
- Earned Income
- Earnings Record
- Episodes of Decompensation
- Established Onset Date (EOD)
- Expedited Reinstatement
- Federal Benefit Rate
- Federal Court Review
- Field Office
- Five month waiting period
- Full retirement age
- Functional limitations
- GRID Rules
- Heavy Work
- Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- In Kind Support and Maintenance
- Insured Status
- Light Work
- Listing of Impairments
- Medicaid
- Medical evidence
- Medical Expert
- Medicare
- Mental Consultative Exam
- Nonattorney representative
- Nonmedical requirements
- Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR)
- Overpayment
- Past Relevant Work
- Physical Residual Functional Capacity
- Plan for Achieving Self Support
- Presumptive Disability
- Protective Filing Date
- Quarters of Coverage
- Representative Payee
- Residual Functional Capacity
- Residual Functional Capacity Form
- Resources
- Sedentary Work
- Semi-Skilled Work
- Sequential Evaluation Process
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
- Social Security Disability Insurance SSDI
- SSA Redbook
- Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Technical Denial
- Temporary Disability
- Treating Source
- Trial Work Period
- Unearned Income
- Unskilled Work
- Unsuccessful Work Attempts
- Urgent Case Request
- Vocational Expert
- Vocational Factors
- Work Credits
- Work Incentives
- Worth of Work Test
- Wounded Warrior Process
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Able-bodied
Able-bodied refers to individuals who are mentally and physically strong and healthy, not disabled, able to work, and able to complete other daily tasks without help from othersCategory: Disability