Federal brief
Social Security Ruling, SSR 26-2p; Titles II and XVI: Documenting and Evaluating Disability in Young Adults
Publisher-desk brief on Social Security Administration FR 2026-17814 (2026-09-01). Use the filing for dates and comment paths.
SSA issued Social Security Ruling SSR 26-2p on how disability claims document and evaluate medical evidence.
Rulings bind adjudicators inside SSA — claimants’ reps read them like case law even though they are not statutes.
Filing abstract (agency text): We are providing notice of SSR 26-2p. This SSR explains our policies and consolidates information from our regulations on documenting and evaluating disability in young adults. This ruling rescinds and replaces SSR 11-2p.
Disability advocates and ALJ practitioners: pull the ruling text for the documentation standard that will show up in hearing decisions.
Federal Register filing: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/01/2026-17814/social-security-ruling-ssr-26-2p-titles-ii-and-xvi-documenting-and-evaluating-disability-in-young
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.
Source: the official public federal record 2026-17814 · Federal Register · 2026-17814 · FR-2026-17814.
This is a Notice Nearby publisher-desk Federal brief — a short in-house summary of a public federal filing. It is not official agency minutes, not a newspaper story, and not Legal Publication. It does not satisfy a statutory notice requirement.