Social Security Compassionate Allowances

Identifies diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the this process will fast-track applications for people diagnosed with certain cancers or disabilities. Compassionate allowances will allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.

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Applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Below is list of 50 Conditions that qualify under compassionate allowances: 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 uresectable 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

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5/19/2023