ABA Family Legal Guide

Law and the Workplace

On the Job

Social Security Disability Insurance

What if a worker does not suffer from a medical equivalent of a listed impairment on the list published by The Social Security Administration?

Then the worker would be eligible for benefits only if he or she could prove a disabling medical condition by another means. The employee would have to show that the condition or disease is so severe that it prevented him or her from doing his or her former job or other similar work. It is not easy to prove this.