Consider current findings, including recipient’s age.

Consider the prior Listings of Impairments as instructed in DI 34100.000. Do not use the beneficiary’s age by itself for finding the listing is no longer met.

When considering listing sections that contain different criteria broken down by age, apply the criteria that apply just before age 18 (even though the beneficiary is now over 18).

An individual with a hearing impairment met Listing 102.08A.

The same listing section (102.08) applies in deciding whether MI is related to the ability to work. However, a different subsection (B, applicable to children age five and over) applies. Based on evidence concerning the hearing impairment, disability continues.

Continue to apply the criteria in listing 102.08B in relating MI to the ability to work, because those criteria applied just before age 18 and were used in the CPD (i.e., the CDR at age 12).

An individual with pituitary dwarfism met Listing 100.02.

Consider findings such as increased height and closure (or non-closure) of major epiphyses in deciding whether the impairment still meets Listing 100.02. To give appropriate consideration to the beneficiary’s current age, consider mean growth data applicable to age 19 (if available).