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Though many claimants for social security
disability and ssi based on disability may not be aware
of the fact, disability cases can be closed due to a failure
to cooperate on the part of the claimant. Generally,
a failure to cooperate closure happens in scenarios similar
to this:
- The Examiner at Disability
Determination Services schedules a claimant for a medical
examination, known as a consultative examination, or CE.
- The claimant fails to go
to the medical exam.
- The claimant provides a
reasonable or semi-reasonable reason for missing the medical
exam and the disability examiner agrees to reschedule
the consultative exam.
- The disability claimant
again misses the scheduled exam, but, once again, provides
a plausible reason for having missed the appointment (such
as automotive problems, sickness, family emergency) resulting
in the examiner scheduling the claimant for a third time.
- The claimant misses the
third scheduled consultative exam date.
- The Examiner closes the
case for "failure to cooperate".
Of course, not every claimant will be given up to three separate
opportunities to go to a scheduled exam. This example simply
illustrates that a claim may justifiably be closed when a
claimant fails repeatedly to cooperate in its development.
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