Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Disability

The CDC and the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHD) provide this informative Web page with disabilityAn impairment that qualifies as a disability under Social Security Administration (SSA) guidelines must be quite serious. The impairment must render the applicant unable to perform any substantial gainful activity — that is, the applicant must not be able to earn more than a minimum amount of money, determined each year by the SSA. The impairment must completely disable the applicant from working. It must be expected to last for a year, have already lasted a year or be expected to cause the applicant's death. But this is not the end of the qualifying tests. demographics and resources for people with disabilities.