They offer the example of individuals removed from the rolls in 1996 when drug and alcohol addiction were removed from qualifying impairments.
Vocational factors are considered at the fifth stage for those applicants who have not qualified for disability insurance based on severe impairments.
Under the bill passed on Wednesday, Congress would establish a less stringent standard, saying an impairment qualifies as a disability if it "materially restricts" a major life activity like seeing, hearing, eating, walking, reading or thinking.
The individuals with visual impairment who qualified for the training program were preliminarily divided by the qualifying physician into 2 groups based on health criteria: blind without damage to the vestibular system (20 patients) and low vision (i.e., able to sense light) without damage to the vestibular system (8 people).
The Royal British Legion has called for disabled ex-service personnel to be given special treatment after it emerged that many limbless war veterans with mobility impairments would not qualify for disability benefit under the proposed new PIP rules.
Analysis of spatiotemporal parameters during spontaneous walking does not make it possible to qualify mild cognitive impairment.
68, 69 The reported incidence of POCD has varied considerably across studies, partly due to changes in how it was measured: there is no uniform consensus definition of what degree of cognitive impairment qualifies as POCD.
At the time, he had severe keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition, and Jordan's visual impairment meant he qualified for registration as a blind person.
At the time, he had severe keratoconus, a degenerative eye condition and Jordan's visual impairment meant he qualified for registration as a blind person.
Each individual in the group with visual impairment was medically qualified for a 3-month training program.
They just qualified under different rules when the impairment rules were less restrictive.
