Do not complete Item 18 unless the field office (FO) has specifically requested a
determination regarding statutory blindness.
NOTE: In these cases, the FO annotates Item 11: "A determination regarding statutory blindness
is required; other impairments are not now a consideration."
Because of the higher SGA criteria for blind individuals effective 1978, the DDS may
receive such cases involving visual impairments and earnings between the non-blind
and blind SGA levels.