March 2014 Archives

Compassionate Allowances are a way to quickly identify diseases and other medical conditions that by definition meet Social Security's standards for disability benefits. The program fast tracks disability decisions to ensure that claimant's with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months.  Once a compassionate allowance case has been identified by Social Security, those applications are fast-tracked through the approval process. Below is the current list of compassionate allowance conditions.