Compassionate Allowance
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.
If you are someone you know is unable to work based on a compassionate allowance condition, please contact the Law Office of Sharon Meyers at 816-753-3929 for assistance in navigating this process.
Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Adult Onset Huntington Disease
Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile
Alpha Mannosidosis – Type II and III
Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Astrocytoma – Grade III and IV
Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
Bilateral Optic Atrophy- Infantile
Bladder Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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
Chondrosarcoma – with multimodal therapy
Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase
Congenital Lymphedema
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult
Dravet Syndrome
Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
Farber’s Disease (FD) – Infantile
Fatal Familial Insomnia
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A – Adult
Fryns Syndrome
Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis
Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types
Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
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
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome
Hypophosphatasia Perinatal (Lethal) and Infantile Onset Types
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma
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
Large Intestine Cancer – with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
Liposarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis – Grade III
Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Malignant Germ Cell Tumor
Malignant Melanoma – with metastases
Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor
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
MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
Multicentric Castleman Disease
Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation – Types 1 and 2
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor – Grade III
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
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
Peripheral Nerve Cancer – metastatic or recurrent
Peritoneal Mucinous Carcinomatosis
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prostate Cancer – Hormone Refractory Disease – or with visceral metastases
Retinopathy of Prematurity – Stage V
Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency – Childhood
Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, Thymus, or Uterus.
Small Intestine Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Soft Tissue Sarcoma – with distant metastases or recurrent
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 and 1
Spinal Nerve Root Cancer-metastatic or recurrent
Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
Tay Sachs Disease – Infantile Type
Thanatophoric Dysplasia – Type 1
The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
Transplant Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Ureter Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent