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        <CFRTITLE>20</CFRTITLE>
        <CFRTITLETEXT>Employees' Benefits</CFRTITLETEXT>
        <VOL>2</VOL>
        <DATE>2024-04-01</DATE>
        <ORIGINALDATE>2024-04-01</ORIGINALDATE>
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        <TITLE>Establishing that you have a medically determinable impairment(s).</TITLE>
        <GRANULENUM>404.1521</GRANULENUM>
        <HEADING>Section 404.1521</HEADING>
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            <PARENT HEADING="Title 20" SEQ="4">Employees' Benefits</PARENT>
            <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER III" SEQ="3">SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION</PARENT>
            <PARENT HEADING="PART 404" SEQ="2">FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )</PARENT>
            <PARENT HEADING="Subpart P" SEQ="1">Determining Disability and Blindness</PARENT>
            <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="0">Evaluation of Disability</PARENT>
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        <SECTNO>§ 404.1521</SECTNO>
        <SUBJECT> Establishing that you have a medically determinable impairment(s).</SUBJECT>
        <P>If you are not doing substantial gainful activity, we will then determine whether you have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) (see § 404.1520(a)(4)(ii)). Your impairment(s) must result from anatomical, physiological, or psychological abnormalities that can be shown by medically acceptable clinical and laboratory diagnostic techniques. Therefore, a physical or mental impairment must be established by objective medical evidence from an acceptable medical source. We will not use your statement of symptoms, a diagnosis, or a medical opinion to establish the existence of an impairment(s). After we establish that you have a medically determinable impairment(s), then we determine whether your impairment(s) is severe.</P>
        <CITA>[82 FR 5868, Jan. 18, 2017]</CITA>
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