The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). These are the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Industry and Manufacturing Engineering (MEIME2012), held on the 23rd and 24th June, 2012, in Hefei, China. Readers will find herein many original ideas and new visual angles on aspects of Applied Mechanics and Materials in Mechanical Engineering, Industry and Manufacturing Engineering.