Earlier this month, the Social Security Administration announced the addition of 14 diseases to the list of expedited allowance categories for Social Security disability benefits. Here is the announcement:
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Dear Colleague,
Today, Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano announced the addition of 14 conditions to Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances list.
The Compassionate Allowances initiative is designed to cut through red tape and allows us to quickly identify claims where the applicant’s medical condition or disease clearly meets our definition of disability. Given the severity of these conditions, claims are often approved based on medical confirmation of the diagnosis alone, helping individuals experiencing life-changing diagnoses receive the support they need as fast as possible.
The newly added Compassionate Allowances conditions are:
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- Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency – Neonatal Form and Type 1
- Aicardi Syndrome
- Baraitser-Winter Syndrome
- Beare-Stevenson Cutis Gyrata Syndrome
- Bohring-Opitz Syndrome
- CASK-Related Gene Disorders
- Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma
- Lafora Disease
- Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy (MMPSI)
- OPHN1 Syndrome
- Primary Cardiac Sarcoma
- Primary Intracranial Malignant Melanoma
- Uveal Melanoma – with Metastases
- Warburg Micro Syndrome
