RSD/CRPS Ruling Still Not Implemented

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RSD/CRPS Ruling Still Not Implemented

For more than four years, the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association of America (RSDSA) has been advocating that the Social Security Administration Office of Disability issue a Social Security Ruling instructing its adjudicators how to evaluate cases involving Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS). Before the RSD/CRPS Social Security Ruling is implemented, it must be approved by the Commissioner's Office and published in the Federal Register.

The Ruling is stalled at the Commissioner's level. Every day people disabled with RSD/CRPS are being denied disability compensation. Too often, the delay of disability compensation causes irreparable financial destitution.It is unconscionable that this process has taken so long!

We are asking the RSD/CRPS community call or write their Senators and Representatives and demand that the Commissioner complete the review process and publish the proposed Ruling in the Federal Register. Send a copy of your letter to Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security, Social Security Administration, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235-0001.

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