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What Are Compassionate Allowances in Social Security Disability Claims?

August 21, 2023 //  by Ortiz Law Firm//  Leave a Comment

Social Security recognizes that it has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

The Compassionate Allowances (CAL) initiative is a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate Allowances allow Social Security to target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that it can obtain quickly. Compassionate Allowances is not a separate program from the Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income programs.

CAL conditions are selected using information received at public outreach hearings, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Services communities, counsel of medical and scientific experts, and Social Security’s research with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Also, Social Security considers which conditions are most likely to meet its current definition of disability.

As of 2013, Social Security has held seven Compassionate Allowances public outreach hearings. The hearings were on rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, schizophrenia, cardiovascular disease and multiple organ transplants and autoimmune diseases.

Compassionate Allowances Conditions

As a result of the foregoing, Social Security has identified the following list of Compassionate Allowances Conditions:

  • 1p36 Deletion Syndrome
  • Acute Leukemia
  • Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  • Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Adult Onset Huntington Disease
  • Aicardi-Goutières Syndrome
  • Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile
  • Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome
  • Alobar Holoprosencephaly
  • Alpers Disease
  • Alpha Mannosidosis – Type II and III
  • Alstrom Syndrome
  • Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma
  • Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  • Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  • Anaplastic Ependymoma
  • Angelman Syndrome
  • Aortic Atresia
  • Aplastic Anemia
  • Astrocytoma – Grade III and IV
  • Ataxia Telangiectasia
  • Batten Disease
  • Beta Thalassemia Major
  • Bilateral Optic Atrophy- Infantile
  • Bilateral Retinoblastoma
  • Bladder Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  • Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  • Calciphylaxis
  • Canavan Disease (CD)
  • Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
  • Caudal Regression Syndrome – Types III and IV
  • Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
  • Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
  • Child Neuroblastoma – with distant metastases or recurrent
  • Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma – recurrent
  • Child T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
  • Cholangiocarcinoma
  • Chondrosarcoma – with multimodal therapy
  • Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase
  • Congenital Lymphedema
  • Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
  • Corticobasal Degeneration
  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult
  • Cri du Chat Syndrome
  • Degos Disease – Systemic
  • DeSanctis Cacchione Syndrome
  • Dravet Syndrome
  • Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
  • Eisenmenger Syndrome
  • Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma
  • Endomyocardial Fibrosis
  • Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
  • Erdheim Chester Disease
  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Ewing Sarcoma
  • Farber’s Disease (FD) – Infantile
  • Fatal Familial Insomnia
  • Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
  • Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
  • FOXG1 Syndrome
  • Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
  • Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A – Adult
  • Fryns Syndrome
  • Fucosidosis – Type 1
  • Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  • Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis
  • Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types
  • Gallbladder Cancer
  • Gaucher Disease (GD) – Type 2
  • Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
  • Glioma Grade III and IV
  • Glutaric Acidemia – Type II
  • 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
  • Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
  • Hepatorenal Syndrome
  • Histiocytosis Syndromes
  • Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
  • Hydranencephaly
  • Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome
  • Hypophosphatasia Perinatal (Lethal) and Infantile Onset Types
  • 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)
  • Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome
  • 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
  • Leber Congenital Amaurosis
  • Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
  • Leigh’s Disease
  • Leiomyosarcoma
  • Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
  • Lewy Body Dementia
  • Lissencephaly
  • Liver Cancer
  • Lowe Syndrome
  • Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis – Grade III
  • Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
  • Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
  • Malignant Germ Cell Tumor
  • Malignant Melanoma – with metastases
  • Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
  • Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
  • Maple Syrup Urine Disease
  • Mastocytosis – Type IV
  • MECP2 Duplication Syndrome
  • Medulloblastoma – with metastases
  • Menkes Disease – Classic or Infantile Onset Form
  • Merkel Cell Carcinoma – with metastases
  • Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  • Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) – Late Infantile
  • Metastatic Endometrial Adenocarcinoma
  • Mitral Valve Atresia
  • Mixed Dementias
  • MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
  • MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
  • MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
  • Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
  • Multicentric Castleman Disease
  • Multiple System Atrophy
  • Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
  • Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
  • Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
  • Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation – Types 1 and 2
  • NFU-1 Mitochondrial Disease
  • Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A
  • Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
  • Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia
  • 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
  • Osteosarcoma, formerly known as Bone Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable.
  • Ovarian Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  • Pancreatic Cancer
  • Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration
  • Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
  • Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
  • Pearson Syndrome
  • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
  • Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
  • Peripheral Nerve Cancer – metastatic or recurrent
  • Peritoneal Mesothelioma
  • Peritoneal Mucinous Carcinomatosis
  • Perry Syndrome
  • Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
  • Pineoblastoma – Childhood
  • Pleural Mesothelioma
  • Pompe Disease – Infantile
  • Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
  • Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
  • Primary Effusion Lymphoma
  • Primary Omental Cancer
  • Primary Progressive Aphasia
  • Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
  • Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
  • Pulmonary Atresia
  • Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
  • Retinopathy of Prematurity – Stage V
  • Rett (RTT) Syndrome
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
  • Roberts Syndrome
  • Salivary Tumors
  • Sandhoff Disease
  • Sarcomatoid Carcinoma of the Lung – Stages II-IV
  • Schindler Disease – Type 1
  • Severe Combined Immunodeficiency – Childhood
  • Single Ventricle
  • Sinonasal Cancer
  • Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
  • Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • Small Intestine Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  • Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 and 1
  • Spinal Nerve Root Cancer-metastatic or recurrent
  • Spinocerebellar Ataxia
  • Stiff Person Syndrome
  • Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  • Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
  • Tabes Dorsalis
  • Tay Sachs Disease – Infantile Type
  • Thanatophoric Dysplasia – Type 1
  • The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
  • Thyroid Cancer
  • Transplant Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
  • Tricuspid Atresia
  • Trisomy 9
  • Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  • Ureter Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable, or recurrent
  • Usher Syndrome – Type I
  • Walker Warburg Syndrome
  • Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
  • Wolman Disease
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum
  • Zellweger Syndrome
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