SSA Disability Listing of Impairments

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

Evidence log

• 2026-04-16 — Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2026: Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2026 (S4334, introduced, Senate Finance) revives the targeted SSDI demonstration approach for blind beneficiaries — a separate track from the broader HR8884 demonstration-authority reauthorization. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-12-11 — Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act: Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act (S3442, introduced) proposes a disease-specific carve-out from SSDI/Medicare waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer, distinct from the demonstration-authority reauthorization framework in HR8884. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-22 — Childhood Disability Benefits Fairness Act: Childhood Disability Benefits Fairness Act (HR9846, introduced, 119th Congress) referred to House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce to address fairness in childhood disability benefits — a separate SSA disability policy track from the SSDI demonstration-project reauthorization in HR8884, with no mechanistic detail yet available. (novelty: 2)
• 2025-02-10 — Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2025: Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2025 (introduced) proposes a distinct 20-year SSDI demonstration project targeted at blind beneficiaries, using a gradual benefit-reduction formula above the SGA threshold rather than the broader demonstration-authority reauthorization framework in HR 8884. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-02-04 — Stop the Wait Act of 2025: Stop the Wait Act of 2025 (introduced) proposes phasing out the SSDI five-month waiting period by 2030 and eliminating the 24-month Medicare waiting period for disabled individuals unable to afford minimum essential coverage — a separate SSDI reform track from HR 8884’s demonstration-project reauthorization. (novelty: 2) (novelty: 2)
• 2026-06-30 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act: HR 8884 (Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act) reauthorizes SSA’s SSDI demonstration project authority through 2031, adding voluntary participation and income-protection guarantees, restricting administrative costs to appropriated funds, and extending the congressional pre-notification window from 90 to 120 days with required evaluation metrics. (novelty: 2)

Open questions

Related