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Compassionate Allowances for Social Security Disability Claims

By Turley, Redmond & Rosasco, LLP

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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":

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

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!

Full post as published by The New York Disability Law Blog on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).