Expanded Compassionate Allowances for Social Security Disability and SSI Claimants
Social Security Disability and SSI claimants now have more opportunities to get their cases fast-tracked for certain conditions. The Social Security Administration announced 13 new Compassionate Allowances conditions involving the immune system and neurological disorders. The Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that claimants with the most serious disabilities receive benefit decisions within days instead of months or years.
The Compassionate Allowances initiative identifies claims where the nature of the applicant’s disease or condition clearly meets the statutory standard for disability. The Social Security Administration launched the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008 with a list of 50 diseases and conditions. The announcement of 13 new conditions, effective in December, will increase the total number of Compassionate Allowances conditions to 113. The conditions include certain cancers, adult brain disorders, a number of rare genetic disorders of children, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and other disorders.
The current list of Compassionate Allowance is listed below with those in bold being ones added on July 14, 2011.
1. Acute Leukemia
2. Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3. Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile
4. Alstrom Syndrome
5. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
6. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
7. Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
8. Aortic Atresia
9. Astrocytoma – Grade III and IV
10. Ataxia Telangiectasia
11. Batten Disease
12. Bilateral Retinoblastoma
13. Bladder Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
14. Bone Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
15. Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
16. Canavan Disease (CD)
17. Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
18. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase
19. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult
20. Cri du Chat Syndrome
21. Degos Disease, Systemic
22. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
23. Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
24. Eisenmenger Syndrome
25. Endomyocardial Fibrosis
26. Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
27. Esophageal Cancer
28. Farber’s Disease (FD) – Infantile
29. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
30. Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA)
31. Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A – Adult
32. Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
33. Gallbladder Cancer
34. Gaucher Disease (GD) – Type 2
35. Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
36. Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
37. Head and Neck Cancers – with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
38. Heart Transplant Graft Failure
39. Heart Transplant Wait List, 1A/1B
40. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
41. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
42. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
43. Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
44. Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
45. Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
46. Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
47. Kidney Cancer – inoperable or unresectable
48. Krabbe Disease (KD) – Infantile
49. Large Intestine Cancer – with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
50. Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
51. Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
52. Leigh’s Disease
53. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
54. Liver Cancer
55. Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
56. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
57. Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
58. Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) – Late Infantile
59. Mitral Valve Atresia
60. Mixed Dementias
61. MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
62. MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
63. MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
64. Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
65. Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
66. Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A
67. Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
68. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
69. Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
70. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) – Type II
71. Ovarian Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
72. Pancreatic Cancer
73. Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
74. Peritoneal Mesothelioma
75. Pleural Mesothelioma
76. Pompe Disease – Infantile
77. Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
78. Primary Progressive Aphasia
79. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
80. Pulmonary Atresia
81. Rett (RTT) Syndrome
82. Salivary Tumors
83. Sandhoff Disease
84. Single Ventricle
85. Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
86. Small Cell Lung Cancer
87. Small Intestine Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
88. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 And 1
89. Spinocerebellar Ataxia
90. Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
91. Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
92. Tay Sachs Disease – Infantile Type
93. Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
94. Thyroid Cancer
95. Tricuspid Atresia
96. Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
97. Ureter Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
98. Walker Warburg Syndrome
99. Wolman Disease
100. Zellweger Syndrome
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