By Robert J. Osborne, Esq.
The Social Security Regulations provide that, “residual functional capacity is the most you can still do despite your limitations.” The Social Security Regulations require the Social Security Administration to “consider all of your medically determinable impairments of which [the Social Security Administration is] aware, including medically determinable impairments that are not ‘severe’ . . . .” You may recall from an earlier blog that a medically determinable impairment “is not severe if it does not significantly limit your physical or mental ability to do basic work activities.” So, in reviewing a person’s eligibility for Social Security Disability, the Social Security Administration will look at all of an individual’s impairments of which it is aware, even those that do not have an affect on your ability to do basic work activities. [Read more…]