Technical Requirements

 No matter how well you provide Social Security information and no matter how much support your doctor provides, Social Security cannot prove you unless you meet the technical requirements. 

While the technical requirements for SSI and SSD are different, both are discussed earlier in this e-text. Technical requirements typically fall into a few main categories. First, there are financial and work history requirements. If your household’s finances are too high, you will not qualify for Social Security Income (SSI), and if you do not have enough work history, you cannot qualify for Social Security Disability (SSD). So these sorts of technical requirements will be the first thing your reviewer looks at, because if you do not meet them there is no point considering the rest of your claim.

On top of the circumstantial requirements, there are requirements of the process. As discussed earlier, Social Security requires medical evidence. On top of that, they require you to do certain things such as fill out questionnaires and see a consulting examiner. Failure to follow their process puts you on the negative side of their technical requirements and will result in a denial.

Even if you meet the circumstantial requirements and follow their procedural rules, you also must meet the technical requirements for the health problems included in what they call the blue book. These diagnostic criteria have very little wiggle room, and if your health problems do not meet or equal one of them, you will be denied for lack of technical eligibility.