Federal
Register Volume 78, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 20, 2013)]
[Pages
11939-11947]
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SOCIAL
SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket
No. SSA-2012-0006]
Social
Security Ruling, SSR 13-2p.; Titles II and XVI: Evaluating
Cases
Involving Drug Addiction and Alcoholism (DAA)
AGENCY:
Social Security Administration.
ACTION:
Notice of Social Security Ruling (SSR).
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SUMMARY:
We are giving notice of SSR 13-2p, in which we explain our
policies
for how we consider whether ``drug addiction and alcoholism''
(DAA)
is material to our determination of disability in disability
claims
and continuing disability reviews. This SSR rescinds and
replaces
SSR 82-60, Titles II and XVI: Evaluation of Drug Addiction and
Alcoholism.
This SSR obsoletes EM 96-200.
DATES:
Effective Date: March 22, 2013.