Section 36 Functional Equivalence for Children

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

When a child has a severe impairment or combination of impairments that does not meet or medically equal any listing, the adjudicator will evaluate whether this impairment or combination of impairments functionally equals the listings. 20 C.F.R. § 416.926a. To functionally equal the listings, a child's impairment or combination of impairments must cause "marked" limitations in at least two of the six functional domains or "extreme" limitations in at least one of the six functional domains. These six...