Find your condition.
How Social Security actually looks at 48 common conditions — what they measure, what the records need to show, and where people usually get tripped up.
Before you look yours up
A diagnosis on its own never qualifies anybody. Social Security decides on what a condition stops you doing — how long you can stand, sit, lift, concentrate and show up reliably. Two people with the same diagnosis often get opposite answers, and that is not a mistake in the system; it is how the system works.