Compassionate Allowances List

The Social Security Administration is utilizing sophisticated new information technology to identify claims with medical conditions that clearly meet the statutory standards for disability. This program, called Compassionate Allowances, fast-tracks disability cases to expedite favorable determinations for people with the most serious disabilities. Generally, these conditions involve neurological disorders, cancers and rare diseases.

Social Security launched the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008. At that time, there were approximately fifty diseases included in the program. This month fifty-two conditions have been added. They comprise certain cancers, adult brain disorders, a number of rare genetic disorders of children, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, immune system conditions, and other disorders.Here is a compassionate allowances list of conditions.

Compassionate Allowances List of Conditions

• Acute Leukemia
• Adrenal Cancer
• Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
• Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile
• Alobar Holoprosencephaly
• Alpers Disease
• Alpha Mannosidosis
• Alstrom Syndrome
• Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
• Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
• Angelman Syndrome
• Aortic Atresia
• Astrocytoma- Grade III and IV
• Ataxia Telangiectasia
• Batten Disease
• Bilateral Retinoblastoma
• Bladder Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
• Canavan Disease(CD)
• Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
• Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
• Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
• Child Neuroblastoma
• Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Chondrosarcoma with multimodal therapy
• Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase
• Cornelia de Lange Syndrome-Classic Form
• Corticobasal Degeneration
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult
• Cridu Chat Syndrome
• Degos Disease, Systemic
• Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
• Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
• Eisenmenger Syndrome
• Endomyocardial Fibrosis
• Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
• Esophageal Cancer
• Ewing Sarcoma
• Farber’s Disease(FD)–Infantile
• Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
• Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma with metastases
• Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
• Frontotemporal Dementia(FTD), Picks Disease-Type A- Adult
• Fucosidosis – Type 1
• Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• Galactosialidosis – Early Infantile Type
• Gallbladder Cancer
• Gaucher Disease(GD) – Type 2
• Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
• Glioma Grade III and IV
• Glutaric Acidemia – Type II
• Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
• Head and Neck Cancers – with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
• Heart Transplant Graft Failure
• Heart Transplant Wait List,1A/1B
• Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis(HLH), Familial Type
• Hepatoblastoma
• Histiocytosis
• Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
• Hydranencephaly
• Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis
• Hypophosphatasia Perinatal Lethal Form
• Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
• I Cell disease
• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease
• Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
• Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
• Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
• Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
• Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
• Kidney Cancer- inoperable or unresectable
• Krabbe Disease(KD) – Infantile
• Kufs Disease Type A and B
• Large Intestine Cancer- with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
• Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
• Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
• Leigh’s Disease
• Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
• Lewy Body Dementia
• Lissencephaly
• Liver Cancer
• Lowe Syndrome
• Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Grade III
• Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
• Malignant Melanoma with metastases
• Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
• Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
• Maple Syrup Urine Disease
• Mastocytosis Type IV
• Medulloblastoma with metastasis
• Merkel Cell Carcinoma with metastases
• Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
• Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) – Late Infantile
• Mitral Valve Atresia
• Mixed Dementias
• MPSI, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
• MPSII, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
• MPSIII, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
• Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
• Multicentric Castleman Disease
• Multiple System Atrophy
• Myocolonic Epilepsy and Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
• Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
• Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation – Type 1 and Type 2
• Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A
• Niemann-Pick Disease – Type C
• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
• Obliterative Bronchiolitis
• Ohtahara Syndrome
• Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
• Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
• Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) – Type II
• Pearson Syndrome
• Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease – Classic Form
• Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease – Connatal Form
• Peripheral Nerve Cancer – metastatic or recurrent
• Perry Syndrome
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
• Schindler Disease Type 1
• Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
• Spinal Nerve Root Cancer- metastatic or recurrent
• Stiff Person Syndrome
• Tabes Dorsalis
• Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
• Xeroderma Pigmentosum

Rob Levine & Associates helps disabled individuals recover the disability benefits they need. Contact us at 866-LAW-SSDI to learn more about the Compassionate Allowances program and whether you qualify.