Social Security, Compassionate Allowances Options

[allan]

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/



Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.

Commissioner Astrue has held four Compassionate Allowance public outreach hearings. The hearings were on rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, and early-onset Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The Commissioner will hold the fifth public outreach hearing on schizophrenia in November 2009. The hearing will take place in San Francisco, California.

The initial list of Compassionate Allowance conditions was developed as a result of information received at public outreach hearings, public comment on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Service communities, and the counsel of medical and scientific experts. Also, we considered which conditions are most likely to meet our current definition of disability.

A modest 50 conditions were selected for the initiative's rollout. The list which follows will expand over time.

Additional information about how compassionate allowances are processed

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/...33;opendocument

Initial List of Compassionate Allowance Conditions

List of Conditions

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





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Dan Cedusky, Champaign IL "Colonel Dan"
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This post has been edited by allan: Nov 20 2009, 05:42 PM