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Social Security Disability - Compassionate Allowances

By Robert Kraft

div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"pSocial Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards. /p pCompassionate 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 will allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly./p pCommissioner Astrue has held two Compassionate Allowance public outreach hearings. The first was on rare diseases and the second was on cancers. A third hearing on brain injuries was held on November 18, 2008./p pThe 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./p pA modest 50 conditions have been selected for the initiative's rollout. The list whichnbsp; follows may expand over time./p pList of Conditions/p p1nbsp; nbsp; Acute Leukemiabr /2nbsp; nbsp; Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /3nbsp; nbsp; Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantilebr /4nbsp; nbsp; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)br /5nbsp; nbsp; Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /6nbsp; nbsp; Astrocytoma - Grade III and IVbr /7nbsp; nbsp; Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectablebr /8nbsp; nbsp; Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectablebr /9nbsp; nbsp; Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectablebr /10nbsp; nbsp; Canavan Disease (CD)br /11nbsp; nbsp; Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndromebr /12nbsp; nbsp; Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phasebr /13nbsp; nbsp; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adultbr /14nbsp; nbsp; Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)br /15nbsp; nbsp; Esophageal Cancerbr /16nbsp; nbsp; Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantilebr /17nbsp; nbsp; Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)br /18nbsp; nbsp; Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adultbr /19nbsp; nbsp; Gallbladder Cancerbr /20nbsp; nbsp; Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2br /21nbsp; nbsp; Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)br /22nbsp; nbsp; Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectablebr /23nbsp; nbsp; Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)br /24nbsp; nbsp; Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)br /25nbsp; nbsp; Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectablebr /26nbsp; nbsp; Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantilebr /27nbsp; nbsp; Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /28nbsp; nbsp; Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)br /29nbsp; nbsp; Liver Cancerbr /30nbsp; nbsp; Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)br /31nbsp; nbsp; Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantilebr /32nbsp; nbsp; Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type Abr /33nbsp; nbsp; Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /34nbsp; nbsp; Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiencybr /35nbsp; nbsp; Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type IIbr /36nbsp; nbsp; Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectablebr /37nbsp; nbsp; Pancreatic Cancerbr /38nbsp; nbsp; Peritoneal Mesotheliomabr /39nbsp; nbsp; Pleural Mesotheliomabr /40nbsp; nbsp; Pompe Disease - Infantilebr /41nbsp; nbsp; Rett (RTT) Syndromebr /42nbsp; nbsp; Salivary Tumorsbr /43nbsp; nbsp; Sandhoff Diseasebr /44nbsp; nbsp; Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)br /45nbsp; nbsp; Small Cell Lung Cancerbr /46nbsp; nbsp; Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /47nbsp; nbsp; Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1br /48nbsp; nbsp; Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrentbr /49nbsp; nbsp; Thyroid Cancerbr /50nbsp; nbsp; Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent/p/div

Full post as published by Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).