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Timestamp: 2017-09-25 06:10:45
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§0608', '§606', '§607', '§608', '§507', '§607', '§517']

SSA Handbook §0608
If you apply for disabled worker's benefits, widow(er)'s benefits based on disability, childhood disability benefits ("disabled adult child"), a "period of disability," or adult SSI disability payments and have a severe impairment (see §606), we will decide if your condition meets or medically equals an impairment in Part A of the Listing of Impairments. (See §§607 and §§608.) However, if we decide that your condition is not a listed impairment and is not medically equal to a listed impairment, we may still decide that you are disabled under the definition in §507.1.
If you apply for SSI based on disability, and we decide that you have a severe impairment(s), we will decide if your condition meets or medically equals an impairment in Part B of the Listing of Impairments. If the listings in part B do not apply, and your specific disease process(es) has a similar effect on adults and children, we use the listings in part A to decide if your condition meets or medically equals a listed impairment. (See §607.) However, if we decide that your condition is not a listed impairment and is not medically equal to a listed impairment, we may still decide that you are disabled under the definition in §517.
We will do this by considering whether your condition(s) "functionally equals the listings"; that is, we will consider what you cannot do, have difficulty doing, need help doing, or are restricted from doing because of your condition. We will consider how your condition(s) affects you in your daily activities at home, at school, and in your neighborhood. Your activities are the things you do when you are acquiring and using information; attending and completing tasks; interacting and relating with others; moving about and manipulating objects; and caring for yourself. We will also consider your health and physical well-being.
To decide whether your condition(s) functionally equals the listings, we will compare your daily activities to the daily activities of other children your age who do not have impairments, and we will compare how you do your activities to how those children do theirs