The Social Security Administration is expanding its Compassionate Allowances program, which is designed to provide decisions on disability claims within several days — instead of months or years — for people with a select group of diseases or conditions. The agency is adding 35 conditions to the program on Thursday, bringing the total to 200.
The following conditions are now included in the program:
1 Acute leukemia
2 Adrenal cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3 Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma
4 Adult-onset Huntington disease
5 Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
6 Alexander disease (ALX) - neonatal and infantile
7 Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome
8 Alobar holoprosencephaly
9 Alpers disease
10 Alpha mannosidosis - type II and III
11 Alstrom syndrome
12 Alveolar soft part sarcoma
13 Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
14 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
15 Anaplastic adrenal cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
16 Angelman syndrome
17 Aortic atresia
18 Aplastic anemia
19 Astrocytoma - grade III and IV
20 Ataxia telangiectasia
21 Batten disease
22 Beta thalassemia major
23 Bilateral optic atrophy - infantile
24 Bilateral tetinoblastoma
25 Bladder cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
26 Breast cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
27 Canavan disease (CD)
28 Carcinoma of unknown primary site
29 Caudal regression syndrome - types III and IV
30 Cerebro oculo facio skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
31 Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
32 Child neuroblastoma - with distant metastases or recurrent
33 Child non-Hodgkin lymphoma - recurrent
34 Child T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma
35 Chondrosarcoma - with multimodal therapy
36 Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) - blast phase
37 Congenital lymphedema
38 Cornelia de Lange syndrome - classic Form
39 Corticobasal degeneration
40 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) - adult
41 Cri du chat syndrome
42 Degos disease, systemic
43 DeSanctis cacchione syndrome
44 Dravet syndrome
45 Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease
46 Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18)
47 Eisenmenger syndrome
48 Endometrial stromal sarcoma
49 Endomyocardial fibrosis
50 Ependymoblastoma (child brain tumor)
51 Erdheim Chester disease
52 Esophageal cancer
53 Ewing sarcoma
54 Farber’s disease (FD) - infantile
55 Fatal familial insomnia
56 Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
57 Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma - metastatic or recurrent
58 Friedreichs ataxia (FRDA)
59 Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Picks disease - type A - Adult
60 Fryns syndrome
61 Fucosidosis - type 1
62 Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy
63 Fulminant giant cell myocarditis
64 Galactosialidosis - early and late infantile types
65 Gallbladder cancer
66 Gaucher disease (GD) - type 2
67 Glioblastoma multiforme (adult brain tumor)
68 Glioma grade III and IV
69 Glutaric acidemia - type II
70 Head and neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
71 Heart transplant graft failure
72 Heart transplant wait list, 1a/1b
73 Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), familial type
74 Hepatoblastoma
75 Hepatopulmonary syndrome
76 Hepatorenal syndrome
77 Histiocytosis syndromes
78 Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome
79 Hydranencephaly
80 Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome
81 Hypophosphatasia perinatal (lethal) and infantile onset types
82Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
83 I cell disease
84 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
85 Infantile free sialic acid storage disease
86 Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD)
87 Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses
88 Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)
89 Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome
90 Junctional epidermolysis bullosa, lethal type
91 Juvenile-onset Huntington disease
92 Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
93 Krabbe disease (KD) - infantile
94 Kufs disease type A and B
95 Large intestine cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
96 Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses
97 Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipient
98 Leigh’s disease
99 Leiomyosarcoma
100 Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS)
101 Lewy body dementia
102 Lissencephaly
103 Liver cancer
104 Lowe syndrome
105 Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - grade III
106 Malignant brain stem gliomas - childhood
107 Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor
108 Malignant germ cell tumor
109 Malignant melanoma - with metastases
110 Malignant multiple sclerosis
111 Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)
112 Maple syrup urine disease
113 Mastocytosis type IV
114 MECP 2 duplication syndrome
115 Medulloblastoma - with metastases
116 Menkes disease - classic or infantile-onset form
117 Merkel cell carcinoma - with metastases
118 Merosin deficient congenital muscular dystrophy
119 Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) - late infantile
120 Mitral valve atresia
121 Mixed dementias
122 MPS I, formerly known as Hurler syndrome
123 MPS II, formerly known as Hunter syndrome
124 MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo syndrome
125 Mucosal malignant melanoma
126 Multicentric Castleman disease
127 Multiple system atrophy
128 Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers syndrome
129 Neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
130 Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis
131 Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation - type 1 and type 2
132 NFU-1 mitochondrial disease
133 Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) - type A
134 Niemann-Pick disease -type C
135 Non-ketotic hyperglcinemia
136 Non-small cell lung cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
137 Obliterative bronchiolitis
138 Ohtahara syndrome
139 Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency
140 Orthochromatic leukodystrophy with pigmented glia
141 Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) - type II
142 Osteosarcoma, formerly known as bone cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
143 Ovarian cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
144 Pancreatic cancer
145 Paraneoplastic pemphigus
146 Patau suyndrome (Trisomy 13)
147 Pearson syndrome
148 Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease - classic form
149 Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease - connatal form
150 Peripheral nerve cancer - metastatic or recurrent
151 Peritoneal mesothelioma
152 Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis
153 Perry syndrome
154 Phelan-McDermid syndrome
155 Pleural mesothelioma
156 Pompe disease - infantile
157 Primary cardiac amyloidosis
158 Primary central nervous system lymphoma
159 Primary effusion lymphoma
160 Primary progressive aphasia
161 Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
162 Progressive supranuclear palsy
163 Pulmonary atresia
164 Pulmonary kaposi sarcoma
165 Retinopathy of prematurity - stage V
166 Rett (RTT) syndrome
167 Rhabdomyosarcoma
168 Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata
169 Roberts syndrome
170 Salivary tumors
171 Sandhoff disease
172 Schindler disease - type 1
173 Severe combined immunodeficiency - childhood
174 Single ventricle
175 Sinonasal cancer
176 Small cell cancer (of the large intestine, ovary, prostate or uterus)
177 Small cell lung cancer
178 Small intestine cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
179 Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome
180 Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) - types 0 And 1
181 Spinal nerve root cancer - metastatic or recurrent
182 Spinocerebellar ataxia
183 Stiff person syndrome
184 Stomach cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
185 Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
186 Tabes dorsalis
187 Tay Sachs disease - infantile type
188 Thanatophoric dysplasia, type 1
189 The ALS/Parkinsonism dementia complex
190 Thyroid cancer
191 Transplant coronary artery vasculopathy
192 Tricuspid atresia
193 Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy
194 Ureter cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
195 Usher syndrome - type I
196 Walker Warburg syndrome
197 Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome
198 Wolman disease
199 Xeroderma pigmentosum
200 Zellweger syndrome