Section 45 Body Habitus Not Considered

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

The SSAct specifies that the claimant's inability to work must result from medically determinable mental or physical impairments. Therefore, in assessing the claimant's functional limitations, the SSA only considers those limitations and restrictions attributable to medically determinable impairments. As provided in SSR 96-8p, the claimant's age, gender, and body habitus-which refers to natural body build, physique, constitution, size, and weight, insofar as they are unrelated to obesity or any other...