The Social Security Administration is expanding its Compassionate Allowances program, which is designed to provide decisions on disability claims within several days — instead of months or years — for people with a select group of diseases or conditions. The agency is adding 35 conditions to the program on Thursday, bringing the total to 200.
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1Acute leukemia
2Adrenal cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma
4Adult-onset Huntington disease
5Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
6Alexander disease (ALX) - neonatal and infantile
7Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome
8Alobar holoprosencephaly
9Alpers disease
10Alpha mannosidosis - type II and III
11Alstrom syndrome
12Alveolar soft part sarcoma
13Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
14Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
15Anaplastic adrenal cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
16Angelman syndrome
17Aortic atresia
18Aplastic anemia
19Astrocytoma - grade III and IV
20Ataxia telangiectasia
21Batten disease
22Beta thalassemia major
23Bilateral optic atrophy - infantile
24Bilateral tetinoblastoma
25Bladder cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
26Breast cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
27Canavan disease (CD)
28Carcinoma of unknown primary site
29Caudal regression syndrome - types III and IV
30Cerebro oculo facio skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
31Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
32Child neuroblastoma - with distant metastases or recurrent
33Child non-Hodgkin lymphoma - recurrent
34Child T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma
35Chondrosarcoma - with multimodal therapy
36Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) - blast phase
37Congenital lymphedema
38Cornelia de Lange syndrome - classic Form
39Corticobasal degeneration
40Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - adult
41Cri du chat syndrome
42Degos disease, systemic
43DeSanctis cacchione syndrome
44Dravet syndrome
45Early-onset Alzheimer's disease
46Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18)
47Eisenmenger syndrome
48Endometrial stromal sarcoma
49Endomyocardial fibrosis
50Ependymoblastoma (child brain tumor)
51Erdheim Chester disease
52Esophageal cancer
53Ewing sarcoma
54Farber's disease (FD) - infantile
55Fatal familial insomnia
56Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
57Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma - metastatic or recurrent
58Friedreichs ataxia (FRDA)
59Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Picks disease - type A - Adult
60Fryns syndrome
61Fucosidosis - type 1
62Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
63Fulminant giant cell myocarditis
64Galactosialidosis - early and late infantile types
65Gallbladder cancer
66Gaucher disease (GD) - type 2
67Glioblastoma multiforme (adult brain tumor)
68Glioma grade III and IV
69Glutaric acidemia - type II
70Head and neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
71Heart transplant graft failure
72Heart transplant wait list, 1a/1b
73Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), familial type
74Hepatoblastoma
75Hepatopulmonary syndrome
76Hepatorenal syndrome
77Histiocytosis syndromes
78Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
79Hydranencephaly
80Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome
81Hypophosphatasia perinatal (lethal) and infantile onset types
82Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
83I cell disease
84Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
85Infantile free sialic acid storage disease
86Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD)
87Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses
88Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
89Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
90Junctional epidermolysis bullosa, lethal type
91Juvenile-onset Huntington disease
92Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
93Krabbe disease (KD) - infantile
94Kufs disease type A and B
95Large intestine cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
96Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses
97Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipient
98Leigh's disease
99Leiomyosarcoma
100Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS)
101Lewy body dementia
102Lissencephaly
103Liver cancer
104Lowe syndrome
105Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - grade III
106Malignant brain stem gliomas - childhood
107Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor
108Malignant germ cell tumor
109Malignant melanoma - with metastases
110Malignant multiple sclerosis
111Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
112Maple syrup urine disease
113Mastocytosis type IV
114MECP 2 duplication syndrome
115Medulloblastoma - with metastases
116Menkes disease - classic or infantile-onset form
117Merkel cell carcinoma - with metastases
118Merosin deficient congenital muscular dystrophy
119Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) - late infantile
120Mitral valve atresia
121Mixed dementias
122MPS I, formerly known as Hurler syndrome
123MPS II, formerly known as Hunter syndrome
124MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo syndrome
125Mucosal malignant melanoma
126Multicentric Castleman disease
127Multiple system atrophy
128Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers syndrome
129Neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
130Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
131Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation - type 1 and type 2
132NFU-1 mitochondrial disease
133Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) - type A
134Niemann-Pick disease -type C
135Non-ketotic hyperglcinemia
136Non-small cell lung cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
137Obliterative bronchiolitis
138Ohtahara syndrome
139Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency
140Orthochromatic leukodystrophy with pigmented glia
141Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) - type II
142Osteosarcoma, formerly known as bone cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
143Ovarian cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
144Pancreatic cancer
145Paraneoplastic pemphigus
146Patau suyndrome (Trisomy 13)
147Pearson syndrome
148Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease - classic form
149Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease - connatal form
150Peripheral nerve cancer - metastatic or recurrent
151Peritoneal mesothelioma
152Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis
153Perry syndrome
154Phelan-McDermid syndrome
155Pleural mesothelioma
156Pompe disease - infantile
157Primary cardiac amyloidosis
158Primary central nervous system lymphoma
159Primary effusion lymphoma
160Primary progressive aphasia
161Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
162Progressive supranuclear palsy
163Pulmonary atresia
164Pulmonary kaposi sarcoma
165Retinopathy of prematurity - stage V
166Rett (RTT) syndrome
167Rhabdomyosarcoma
168Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata
169Roberts syndrome
170Salivary tumors
171Sandhoff disease
172Schindler disease - type 1
173Severe combined immunodeficiency - childhood
174Single ventricle
175Sinonasal cancer
176Small cell cancer (of the large intestine, ovary, prostate or uterus)
177Small cell lung cancer
178Small intestine cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
179Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome
180Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - types 0 And 1
181Spinal nerve root cancer - metastatic or recurrent
182Spinocerebellar ataxia
183Stiff person syndrome
184Stomach cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
185Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
186Tabes dorsalis
187Tay Sachs disease - infantile type
188Thanatophoric dysplasia, type 1
189The ALS/Parkinsonism dementia complex
190Thyroid cancer
191Transplant coronary artery vasculopathy
192Tricuspid atresia
193Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
194Ureter cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
195Usher syndrome - type I
196Walker Warburg syndrome
197Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
198Wolman disease
199Xeroderma pigmentosum
200Zellweger syndrome
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Source: Social Security Administration
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Online: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/
