Coagulation Defects

How to Get Disability Benefits for Coagulation Defects 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 coagulation defect is severe enough to meet or equal the coagulation defects 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 coagulation defect is severe enough to meet or equal the listing, you will be considered disabled.

The listing for coagulation defects is listing 7.08. To satisfy the listing, you must have a medical diagnosis of hemophilia or a similar disorder, and demonstrate spontaneous hemorrhage requiring transfusion at least three times during the 5 months prior to your case being reviewed by the SSA.

Meeting Social Security Administration Listing 7.08 for Coagulation Defects

Spontaneous hemorrhage 3 times during 5 months means that there is no traumatic basis for the bleeding—it just starts for no obvious reason. “Transfusion” means treatment with whole blood or packed red cells. Treatment with antihemophilic globulin is not a transfusion but a prophylactic therapy to prevent bleeding that does not imply severity.

Continue to Residual Functional Capacity Assessment for Coagulation Defects.

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