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Compassionate Allowances for Social Security Disability Claims
The Social Security Administration has recently developed a new procedure for handling disability claims from claimants with the most severe and disabling conditions. The new procedure allows decision-making on these claims to be "fast-tracked" (not necessarily approved) given the current Social Security backlog. This is a welcome change for Social Security Disability attorneys who often struggle to explain to our very sick clients why Social Security can’t make a quick decision when the disability is "cut and dry". The following is Social Security’s list of 50 disabilities that they will consider for a "compassionate allowance":
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Acute Leukemia |
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Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile |
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) |
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Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Astrocytoma – Grade III and IV |
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Bladder Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable |
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Bone Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable |
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Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable |
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Canavan Disease (CD) |
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Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome |
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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase |
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult |
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Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor) |
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Esophageal Cancer |
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Farber’s Disease (FD) – Infantile |
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Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA) |
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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease –Type A – Adult |
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Gallbladder Cancer |
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Gaucher Disease (GD) – Type 2 |
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Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor) |
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Head and Neck Cancers – with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable |
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Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) |
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) |
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Kidney Cancer – inoperable or unresectable |
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Krabbe Disease (KD) – Infantile |
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Large Intestine Cancer – with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) |
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Liver Cancer |
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Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) |
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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) – Late Infantile |
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Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A |
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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency |
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) – Type II |
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Ovarian Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable |
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Pancreatic Cancer |
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma |
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Pleural Mesothelioma |
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Pompe Disease – Infantile |
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Rett (RTT) Syndrome |
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Salivary Tumors |
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Sandhoff Disease |
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Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus) |
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Small Cell Lung Cancer |
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Small Intestine Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 And 1 |
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Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
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Thyroid Cancer |
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Ureter Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent |
Given this time of Thanksgiving, we are thankful to Social Security for developing this new program to help the sickest claimants. Thank you also to Geri Kahn, Esq. at the California Social Security Lawyer Blog for first posting on this subject. She is an asset to the disability law blogging community and I read her blog regularly.
And of course, Happy Thanksgiving to all the readers of the New York Disability Law Blog!
