Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977
About 15 years ago I made a documentary film about homeless people (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graceofgodmovie.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graceofgodmovie.com</a>).  Two of my subjects had the same medical condition, a seizure disorder resulting from a head injury, which made it effectively impossible for them to work.  (To quote one of my subjects, &quot;It&#x27;s not that I&#x27;m incapable of working, the problem is that I&#x27;m not reliable.  Most people don&#x27;t want an employee who might lapse into a seizure on the job...&quot;)<p>Both applied for SSD.  One was approved, the other denied, and so one ended up on the street and the other didn&#x27;t.  The judge who denied the first subject didn&#x27;t give a reason, which became the basis for an appeal that went all the way to a federal circuit court.  The appeal was denied.