Homemaking is considered a useful occupation. It involves ability to carry the home
management and decision making responsibilities, and providing essential services
within the home for at least one person in addition to one's self. (An individual
living alone cannot be evaluated for ability to engage in homemaking.)
Important to the successful performance of homemaking are shopping for food and supplies,
planning and preparing meals, house cleaning activities, washing and ironing clothes,
child care activities and miscellaneous tasks created by the individual's setting,
(e.g., carrying water when there is no indoor source of supply, making fires, carrying
fuel, etc.)
A homemaker is considered permanently and totally disabled if:
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a.
She can perform all of the essential services but not for the required number of hours
that may be involved. For example, she may be able to prepare breakfast after resting
all night but is unable to get the other two meals, or
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b.
She cannot perform the service on predictable basis, (e.g., she can shop when there
is remission of pain or swelling but it cannot be known when these remissions will
occur), or
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c.
she is unable to perform a significant combination of the essential activities.