SSA Compassionate Allowances

 The following list comprises the SSA's initial list of what they classify as "Compassionate Allowances."  In other words, should you be diagnosed with one of these conditions, and you meet the other qualifications for Disability under the SSD rules or SSI rules, then you should be granted benefits. 

50 Initial Social Security Compassionate Allowance Provisions

  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

On March 1, 2010, the Social Security Administration identified 38 additional allowances that once again, if you have been diagnosed with and meet the requirements for SSD or SSI, then benefits should be granted to you.

1	Alstrom Syndrome
2	Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
3	Ataxia Spinocerebellar
4	Ataxia Telangiectasia
5	Batten Disease
6	Bilateral Retinoblastoma
7	Cri du Chat Syndrome
8	Degos Disease
9	Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
10	Edwards Syndrome
11	Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
12	Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
13	Glutaric Acidemia Type II
14	Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
15	Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
16	Hunter Syndrome, Type II
17	Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
18	Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
19	Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
20	Leigh’s Disease
21	Maple Syrup Urine Disease
22	Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
23	Mixed Dementia
24	Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
25	Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
26	Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
27	Niemann-Pick Type C
28	Patau Syndrome
29	Primary Progressive Aphasia
30	Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
31	Sanfilippo Syndrome
32	Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
33	Tay Sachs Disease
34	Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
35	Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
36	Walker Warburg Syndrome
37	Wolman Disease
38	Zellweger Syndrome

For further clarification and interpretation of the following allowances set forth by Social Security, please contact The Berkley Law Firm.  For your convenience, we have offices in Fullerton, Mission Viejo and San Diego.  


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