Parkinson’s Disease

How to Get Disability Benefits for Parkinson’s Disease by Meeting a Listing

To determine whether you are disabled at Step 3 of the Sequential Evaluation Process, the Social Security Administration will consider whether your Parkinson’s disease is severe enough to meet or equal the Parkinson’s disease listing. The Social Security Administration has developed rules called Listing of Impairments for most common impairments. The listing for a particular impairment describes a degree of severity that Social Security Administration presumes would prevent a person from performing substantial work. If your Parkinson’s disease is severe enough to meet or equal the listing, you will be considered disabled.

The listing for parkinsonian syndrome is listing 3.06. Claimants are not limited to classical Parkinson’s disease for consideration. To meet the listing, you must have a form of parkinsonian syndrome with the following signs: significant rigidity, bradykinesia, or tremor in two extremities, which, singly or in combination, result in sustained disturbance of gross and dexterous movements, or gait and station.

Continue to Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Parkinson’s Disease.

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