...social security (Title II) and SSI (Title XVI) programs, an individual must be unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which is expected to result in death or last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. (If a person...

...SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS HAS EVEN MORE SEVERE THAN THE PRESENT ONE; IT REQUIRED THAT THE IMPAIRMENT BE EXPECTED TO RESULT IN DEATH OR TO BE OF LONG-CONTINUED AND INDEFINITE DURATION. THE PRESENT DEFINITION MAS ADOPTED IN 1965, AT WHICH TIME THE CONGRESS INDICATED THAT IT EXPECTED SSA...

...the average benefits. To be eligible under either program, an individual must be unable to engage in any "substantial gainful activity" by reason of a...medically determinable physical or mental impairment that is expected to last at least 12 months. The government always has performed about 150,000 to 160,000...

...insured in the event of disability. Under the law, disability is defined as the inability to engage in substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment expected to result in death or last at least 12 months. Generally, the worker must be unable to do...

...social security benefits was even more severe than the present one; it required that the impairment be expected to result in death or to be of long-continued and indefinite duration. The present definition was adopted in 1965, at which time the Congress indicated that it expected SSA...

...the individual's ability to work. "Disability" is defined in the act as the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months, or is expected to result in death. The...

...disabled under either the Disability Insurance or the SSI program, a person must be "unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that has lasted or is expected to last 12 months or to result in death." An individual's physical or...

...equivalent impairment in tbe fields of vision. Disabled individual: An individual who Is unable to engage in substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that is expected to last or has lasted for 12 months or can be expected to result in death. (This definition...

...right. Under both programs, the definition of disability is the same — "an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period...

...Supplemental Security Income program purposes, disability is an administrative conclusion that an individual is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity...medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period...