In general terms: VA assesses the percentage to which an individual is impaired compared to a healthy individual. SS assesses whether an individual is capable of performing work that exists. So, a 25 yr old who is unable to lift >10# and incapable of prolonged standing/walking may be found 90-100% disabled by the VA, but not disabled by SS b/c he could perform sed work.
Moreover, VA benefits do not preclude work. An individual may have a 100% VA disab rating, receive benefits, yet work full-time with no earnings limits. For SS, if an individual is earning more than approx $1100 a month, that is a bar to a finding of disability at the initial step.
If those impress you as “very similar,” our opinions apparently differ.
Medicaid is a state benefit, and the individual states have their own laws regarding those benefits. The federal government provides some subsidy for those benefits.
I was referring to medical disability. Engaging in substantial gainful activity is a separate issue. Moreover, once SSA has found a person disabled, he is entitled to a trial work period. but it is a bar to being disabled at the initial step.
Again, you are simply incorrect. I don’t know what you mean by “medical disability” That term has no significance in the SS disab programs. SGA is step one of 5. Listing of impairments step 3. 4 is past work, 5 is other work.
If you wish to dispel your ignorance, give 20 CFR 404.1520 a gander. If not, keep the faith!
(ii) At the second step, we consider the medical severity of your impairment(s). If you do not have a severe medically determinable physical or mental impairment that meets the duration requirement in § 404.1509, or a combination of impairments that is severe and meets the duration requirement, we will find that you are not disabled. (See paragraph (c) of this section.)
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No one else seems particularly interested, but in case you really wish to learn, or in the event someone else stumbles across this thread later, I’ll just post that my fulltime career over the past 30 years as a lawyer and judge has been limited to these federal disability programs. In this thread I am neither speaking from ignorance nor offering opinions.
Your posts suggest some mistaken impressions about the SS and VA disability programs. But I’m not particularly interested in informing someone who doesn’t wish to be.
The section you most recently quoted requires the proper definition of several terms of art. I deal with those every day, and am very confident that I am not doing so incorrectly. The section you quote gives no meaning to the term “medical disability” - which is not a term of art within the SS system.
But I’m done here. As I observed, no one else seems particularly interested.