SSA published Social Security Ruling (SSR) 19-2p, "Evaluating Cases Involving Obesity" on May 20, 2019. This SSR provides guidance on how we establish that a person has a medically determinable impairment of obesity and how we evaluate obesity in disability claims under Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act.

SSR 19-2p is published in its entirety in "Titles II and XVI: Evaluating Cases Involving Obesity."