# Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders
> **US Social Security Administration** · Final rules. · Published 2016-09-26 · Effective 2017-01-17 · 81 FR 66138
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-22908
- **Category:** ssa-other
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 66138
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 2016-09-26
- **Effective date:** 2017-01-17
- **Docket:** Docket No. SSA-2007-0101
## Abstract

We are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate claims involving mental disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). The revisions reflect our program experience, advances in medical knowledge, recommendations from a commissioned report, and public comments we received in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/26/2016-22908/revised-medical-criteria-for-evaluating-mental-disorders)
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