Indiana Social Security Disability Attorney

In October 2008, Social Security launched Compassionate Allowances to expedite the processing of disability claims for applicants with medical conditions so severe that their conditions by definition meet Social Security’s standards. According to Social Security, the idea is to fast track those cases for quick processing.

On July 29,2009, Commissioner Astrue was joined by Marie A. Bernard, M.D., Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, and other Social Security officials, to hear testimony from some of the nation’s leading experts on early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias about possible methods for identifying and implementing Compassionate Allowances for people with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Early-onset Alzheimer’s and related dementia has not yet been added to the list.

Here is the list of the first 50 impairments — 25 rare diseases and 25 cancers included in Compassionate Allowances:

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