Section 25 Step 3-Listing of Impairments

• Library: Social Security Administration Practice and Procedure (2011 Ed.)

Step 3 poses the following questions:

Does the claimant have any impairment that meets or equals in medical severity a listed impairment or impairments?

Does the medical evidence alone document an impairment so debilitating that SSA presumes that the impairment is disabling?

If a claimant establishes a medically determinable impairment that meets or equals a listed impairment, the claimant is disabled, and the evaluation ends without proceeding to the next step. If the medically determinable impairment...