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The Social Security Compassionate Allowance Initiative

The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Compassionate Allowance initiative effectively identifies applicants who clearly meet SSA’s criteria of disabling conditions. Claims are processed within days instead of months, so that disability benefits can be expedited quickly.

SSA continues to expand its list of qualifying medical conditions. Currently there are 88 conditions that meet SSA’s definition of disability, which is a condition that renders someone totally unable to work for a year or longer, and could result in death.

Confirmation of the medical diagnosis of the condition is often all that is needed to get approved for benefits under the Compassionate Allowance process. However, the application must be as complete as possible, with supporting medical information easily obtainable.

If you think your condition qualifies under the Compassionate Allowance initiative, Freedom Disability can help prepare a complete application package for you so that you can receive disability benefits as soon as possible. Contact us so that we can help you.

There are currently 88 medical conditions that qualify for Compassionate Allowance consideration. SSA expects to expand this list over time.

Current Compassionate Allowance Conditions

1. Acute Leukemia
2. Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3. Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
4. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
5. Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
6. Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
7. Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
8. Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
9. Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
10. Canavan Disease (CD)
11. Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
12. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
13. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
14. Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
15. Esophageal Cancer
16. Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
17. Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
18. Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
19. Gallbladder Cancer
20. Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
21. Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
22. Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
23. Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
24. Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
25. Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
26. Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
27. Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
28. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
29. Liver Cancer
30. Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
31. Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
32. Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
33. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
34. Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
35. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
36. Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
37. Pancreatic Cancer
38. Peritoneal Mesothelioma
39. Pleural Mesothelioma
40. Pompe Disease - Infantile
41. Rett (RTT) Syndrome
42. Salivary Tumors
43. Sandhoff Disease
44. Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
45. Small Cell Lung Cancer
46. Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
47. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
48. Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
49. Thyroid Cancer
50. Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
51. Alstrom Syndrome
52. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
53. Ataxia Spinocerebellar
54. Ataxia Telangiectasia
55. Batten Disease
56. Bilateral Retinoblastoma
57. Cri du Chat Syndrome
58. Degos Disease
59. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
60. Edwards Syndrome
61. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
62. Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
63. Glutaric Acidemia Type II
64. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
65. Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
66. Hunter Syndrome, Type II
67. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
68. Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
69. Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
70. Leigh’s Disease
71. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
72. Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
73. Mixed Dementia
74. Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
75. Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
76. Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
77. Niemann-Pick Type C
78. Patau Syndrome
79. Primary Progressive Aphasia
80. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
81. Sanfilippo Syndrome
82. Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
83. Tay Sachs Disease
84. Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
85. Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
86. Walker Warburg Syndrome
87. Wolman Disease
88. Zellweger Syndrome

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The foregoing information is based on published materials from the Social Security Administration including “Disability Evaluation Under Social Security”. It is meant to serve as an introduction to some of the factors used by the SSA in evaluating cases. It is no way comprehensive. While Freedom Disability Services can help you prepare an effective application for benefits, only the SSA can determine whether or not you qualify. For more information call Freedom today at (866) 761-5942.