社会保障署更新项目操作手册政策：残障评估与电子上诉流程六项指令修订
美国社会保障署（SSA）10月29日的订阅通报显示，该署已于10月28日更新其《项目操作手册系统》（POMS）中的六项操作指令，内容涉及残障裁定与上诉流程，涵盖第二篇章福利、第十八篇章（联邦医疗保险）资格与补充保障收入（SSI）。
其中，残障裁定更新（DI 25015）厘清了裁定人员在五步顺序评估的第五步，应如何考量个人在不足全范围久坐型工作情况下的「剩余功能能力」（RFC），包括所评估的限制会轻微还是显著侵蚀职业基础的判断指引；相关裁定规则 SSR 96-9p 继续有效。
其余五项更新涉及上诉委员会审查、听证及 SSI 的行政法法官（ALJ）听证，均把 EM-21000 号指令并入 POMS：疫情期间创设的「电子非医疗上诉」（ENM）流程由此转为常设安排，包括 HA-520 表格填写等程序的进一步厘清，并删除过时内容。该电子流程取代了外地办公室、处理中心与残障裁定单位之间原有的人工纸质非医疗上诉流程，后者在疫情期间一度暂停。
Social Security Administration Updates Program Policy Manual: Disability Evaluation and Electronic Appeals Instructions Revised
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) on October 28 updated six instructions in its Program Operations Manual System (POMS), according to the agency's subscription bulletin of October 29. The updates concern disability adjudication and the appeals process for Title II benefits, Medicare entitlement under Title XVIII, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
The disability update (DI 25015) clarifies how adjudicators should consider an individual's residual functional capacity (RFC) for less than a full range of sedentary work at step five of the sequential evaluation process, including guidelines on whether assessed limitations slightly or significantly erode the occupational base; SSR 96-9p remains in effect.
The remaining five updates — covering Appeals Council review, hearings, and administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings for SSI — incorporate the EM-21000 instructions into POMS, making permanent the Electronic Non-Medical (ENM) appeals process created during the COVID-19 pandemic, with further clarification of procedures including form HA-520, and removal of outdated information. The ENM process replaced the manual, paper-based non-medical appeals workload between field offices, processing centers, and disability adjudication units, which had been suspended during the pandemic.
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