Benefits and Work Incentives Exam Questions and Answers What needs to be reported for Title II? - Correct Answers ✅food, shelter, money disability determination process - Correct Answers ✅This is a sequential process 1) step 1, is the claimant performing substantial gainful activity?2)Does the claimant have a severe impairment or combination of impairments?Impairment MUST impact ability to work. Clearly flush out people who are not disabled at all, who have no impairment whatsoever. Now it's a de minimus test.3)Does the claimant's impairment, or combination of impairments, meet or equal the severity of a listing in the
SSA Listing of Impairments? If yes: Win
4) If the claimant's condition does not meet or equal the severity of a listed impairment, does the claimant have the "residual functional capacity"to do his past relevant work?Past relevant work refers to any work that the individual has performed at the SGA activity level within the past 15 years.Past work is considered regardless of the country in which the work was performed. This is where a lot of people get denied.5) If past relevant work is excluded, does the individual retain the residual functional capacity (RFC) to do any other kind of work that exists in significant numbers in the national economy?Does the individual have the capacity to perform other work that exists in the national economy at the SGA level? RFC is considered, along with the factors of age, education, and work experience. 1 / 4
Benefits and Work Incentives Exam Questions and Answers SGA amount -non blind 2020 (monthly) - Correct Answers ✅If the individual is a nonblind individual, in 2020, that number is a wopping $1,260.SGA is much more then a number SGA amount -blind 2020 (monthly) - Correct Answers
✅$2,110
When a applicant for which of the following benefit programs is performing SGA, their application will be denied. Is it SSI disability? Is it SSDI? Is it both? Or is it neither? - Correct Answers ✅Both SSI and SSDI Once a person is found eligible for benefits, then, then the SGA rule applies - Correct Answers ✅Once a person is found eligible for benefits, then, then the SGA rule applies only in title II cases, SSDI, once a person is on benefits, there is no SGA for people on SSI at all.The sequential evaluation applies to - Correct Answers ✅both in the title II program and in the SSI program, because we are at the application stage. That is how a case is looked at by the Social Security Administration.presumptive eligibility consideration - Correct Answers ✅Applies only to SSI 2 / 4
Benefits and Work Incentives Exam Questions and Answers SSI benefits may be paid for a period of up to 6months on the basis of presumptive disability or blindness, pending a disability determination.May be subject to recoupment as the presumptive benefits are paid prior to the applicant having met the disability requirement.It's applicants for SSI benefits and includes kids, and if their disability is so severe and so intense, they can request presumptive eligibility, which means that they can start getting paid for up to six months on the basis that their condition is so severe, and pending a real determination.I would do it in cases that were clear-cut winners, because if you lose the case, you are subject to recoupment. There is going to be an overpayment.Compassionate allowances - Correct Answers ✅The SSA may quickly identify diseases and/or medical conditions that clearly meet the Listings of Impairments with only minimal medical evidence and review.Over 250 medical conditions will give rise to consideration for a Compassionate Allowance. POMS DI 23022.080 contains the current list. The list is very active with impairments added and deleted regularly. 3 / 4
Benefits and Work Incentives Exam Questions and Answers Age 18 redetermination - Correct Answers ✅Each SSI recipient under age 18 who continues to receive SSI benefits upon turning age 18 mustundergo an Age-18 Redetermination.An Age-18 Redetermination is neithera new application nor a Continuing Disability Review (CDR).An Age-18 Redetermination is a determination focusing on whether the disabled child, now an adult, meets the adult disability standard.Many people will say, oh, so age 18 redetermination is a new application. No. It is not a new application, because the client does not have to fill anything out. It happens automatically.They are not looking to see if the person is still disabled, because it's a different standard. They might still be disabled under the kids, Childs standards, but the question is are they disabled under the adult standards.Section 301. - Correct Answers ✅Allows medically improved individuals to continue receiving SSDI and SSI cash
and health benefits if:
They are participating in an approved vocational rehabilitation program at the time their disability ceases; The program will be completed in a reasonable time; and The SSA has determined that continued participation in the program increases the likelihood of permanent removal from the disability benefit rolls.Let me tell you that with kids, it's even better, because Social Security has very clearly stated that if there is an individualized education plan, an IEP, that
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