Earlier this month the Social Security Administration announced it would add 25 new illnesses to it list of Compassionate Allowance conditions, related to proving applicants with monthly Social Security disability benefits. Conditions listed under Social Security’s Compassionate Allowance programs are conditions where Social Security is supposed to expedite the processing of disability claim because the conditions are so serious.
“We are dedicated to providing vulnerable Americans with facer access to disability benefits through our Compassionate Allowances program,” said Carolyn Colvin, Social Security’s acting commissioner. “Social Security disability benefits are a vital lifeline for individuals who are facing severe diseases and we must ensure that they receive the benefits they rightly deserve,” Colvin said.
The Compassionate Allowance program now has a total of 225 conditions, in which Social Security is supposed to expedite claims if an applicant has been diagnosed with one of these conditions. Previously, the Social Security list of Compassionate Allowance conditions consisted of 200 different conditions.
According to the Social Security Administration, almost 200,000 people with severe disabilities have been approved for disability benefits under the Compassionate Allowance program.
Under regular processing of Social Security disability claims, most applicants can face up to two years before they receive benefits because of long appeal wait times and the huge backlog at Social Security.
The following conditions have been added to the Compassionate Allowance list:
- Angiosarcoma
- Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
- Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
- Coffin-Lowry Syndrome
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Giant Axonal Neuropathy
- Hoyeaal-Hreidarsson Syndrome
- Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma
- Joubert Syndrome
- Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
- Liposarcoma
- Malignant Ectomesenchymoma
- Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor
- Marshall-Smith Syndrome
- Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor Grade III
- Pallister-Killian Syndrome
- Progressive Bulbar Palsy
- Prostate Cancer
- Revesz Syndrome
- Seckel Syndrome
- Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
- Small Cell Cancer of the Thymus
- Soft Tissue Sarcoma
- X-Linked Lymphproliferative Disease
- X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy
