Show Compassionate Allowances Initiative Expedites Approval Process for SSA ApplicantsThe Social Security Administration has compiled a list of 50 illnesses,which qualify for the Compassionate Allowances initiative, whichexpedites the approval process for applicants with the most significantdisabilities and illnesses who file for disability benefits. The listcurrently includes 25 rare diseases and 25 cancers and can be reviewedat the SSA's web site,(http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm) For more information about the Compassionate Allowances initiative,visit the SSA's web site athttp://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/ or call1-800-772-1213 or 1-800-325-0778 (toll-free TTY number). Acute Leukemia DI 23022.085 Adrenal Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.090 Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma DI 23022.921 Adult Onset Huntington Disease DI 23022.923 Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome DI 23022.665 Alexander Disease (ALX) -- Neonatal and Infantile DI 23022.095 Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome DI 23022.925 Alobar Holoprosencephaly DI 23022.670 Alpers Disease DI 23022.675 Alpha Mannosidosis -- Type II and III DI 23022.680 Alstrom Syndrome DI 23022.350 Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma DI 23022.927 Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia DI 23022.355 Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) DI 23022.100 Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.105 Angelman Syndrome DI 23022.600 Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma DI 23022.357 Angiosarcoma DI 23022.106 Aortic Atresia DI 23022.540 Aplastic Anemia DI 23022.929 Astrocytoma -- GRADE III and IV DI 23022.110 Ataxia Telangiectasia DI 23022.360 Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor DI 23022.111 Batten Disease DI 23022.365 Beta Thalassemia Major DI 23022.931 Bilateral Optic Atrophy -- Infantile DI 23022.933 Bilateral Retinoblastoma DI 23022.370 Bladder Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.115 Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm DI 23022.117 Breast Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.125 CACH -- Vanishing White Matter Disease -- Infantile and Childhood Onset Forms DI 23022.127 Canavan Disease (CD) DI 23022.130 Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site DI 23022.685 Cardiac Amyloidosis - AL Type DI 23022.580 Caudal Regression Syndrome - Types III and IV DI 23022.935 CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder DI 23022.133 Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome DI 23022.135 Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis DI 23022.690 Charlevoix-Saguenay Spastic Ataxia DI 23022.144 Child Neuroblastoma- - with distant metastasis or recurrent DI 23022.695 Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma -- recurrent DI 23022.700 Child T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma DI 23022.937 Chondrosarcoma- - with multimodal therapy DI 23022.705 Choroid Plexus Carcinoma DI 23022.938 Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction DI 23022.136 Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia -- Blast Phase DI 23022.140 CIC-rearranged Sarcoma DI 23022.543 Coffin-Lowry Syndrome DI 23022.141 Congenital Lymphedema DI 23022.939 Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy DI 23022.143 Congenital Zika Syndrome DI 23022.373 Cornelia de Lange Syndrome -- Classic Form DI 23022.710 Corticobasal Degeneration DI 23022.605 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) -- Adult DI 23022.145 Cri du Chat Syndrome DI 23022.375 Degos Disease, Systemic DI 23022.380 DeSanctis Cacchione Syndrome DI 23022.941 Desmoplastic Mesothelioma DI 23022.382 Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors DI 23022.146 Dravet Syndrome DI 23022.943 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Adult DI 23022.940 Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease DI 23022.385 Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18) DI 23022.390 Eisenmenger Syndrome DI 23022.545 Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma DI 23022.945 Endomyocardial Fibrosis DI 23022.550 Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor) DI 23022.150 Erdheim Chester Disease DI 23022.947 Esophageal Cancer DI 23022.155 Esthesioneuroblastoma DI 23022.156 Ewing Sarcoma DI 23022.715 Farber’s Disease (FD) -- Infantile DI 23022.160 Fatal Familial Insomnia DI 23022.949 Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva DI 23022.395 Fibrolamellar Cancer DI 23022.163 Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma -- metastatic or recurrent DI 23022.720 Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA) DI 23022.165 Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Picks Disease -- Type A – Adult DI 23022.170 Fryns Syndrome DI 23022.951 Fucosidosis – Type I DI 23022.725 Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy DI 23022.400 Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis DI 23022.953 Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types DI 23022.730 Gallbladder Cancer DI 23022.175 Gaucher Disease (GD) -- Type 2 DI 23022.180 Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease DI 23022.403 Giant Axonal Neuropathy DI 23022.181 Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor) DI 23022.185 Glioma Grade III and IV DI 23022.735 Gluteric Acidemia – Type II DI 23022.470 GM1 - Gangliodosis - Infantile & Juvenile Forms DI 23022.186 Head and Neck Cancers -- with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.190 Heart Transplant Graft Failure DI 23022.555 Heart Transplant Wait List – 1A/1B DI 23022.560 Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis DI 23022.405 Hepatoblastoma DI 23022.745 Hepatopulmonary Syndrome DI 23022.955 Hepatorenal Syndrome DI 23022.957 Histiocytosis Syndromes DI 23022.750 Hoyeraal-Hreidarsson Syndrome DI 23022.191 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome DI 23022.755 Hydranencephaly DI 23022.760 Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome DI 23022.765 Hypophosphatasia- Perinatal (Lethal) and Infantile Onset Types DI 23022.770 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome DI 23022.565 I Cell Disease DI 23022.775 Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis DI 23022.420 Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease DI 23022.780 Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD) DI 23022.195 Infantile Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses DI 23022.425 Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) DI 23022.200 Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma DI 23022.201 Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome DI 23022.959 Joubert Syndrome DI 23022.202 Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa Lethal Type DI 23022.430 Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease DI 23022.785 Kidney Cancer -- inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.205 Kleefstra Syndrome DI 23022.207 Krabbe Disease (KD) -- Infantile DI 23022.210 Kufs Disease Type A and B DI 23022.790 Large Intestine Cancer -- with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.215 Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid-Lipofuscinoses DI 23022.435 Leigh’s Disease DI 23022.440 Leiomyosarcoma DI 23022.961 Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis DI 23022.216 Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) DI 23022.220 Lewy Body Dementia DI 23022.610 Liposarcoma – metastatic or recurrent DI 23022.221 Lissencephaly DI 23022.795 Liver Cancer DI 23022.225 Lowe Syndrome DI 23022.615 Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis - Grade III DI 23022.800 Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas - Childhood DI 23022.805 Malignant Ectomesenchymoma DI 23022.226 Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor DI 23022.963 Malignant Germ Cell Tumor DI 23022.965 Malignant Multiple Sclerosis DI 23022.620 Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor DI 23022.227 Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) DI 23022.230 Maple Syrup Urine Disease DI 23022.445 Marshall-Smith Syndrome DI 23022.231 Mastocytosis - Type IV DI 23022.815 MECP 2 Duplication Syndrome DI 23022.967 Medulloblastoma - with metastasis DI 23022.820 Megacystis Microcolon Intestinal Hypoperistalsis Syndrome DI 23022.233 Megalencephaly-Capillary Malformation Syndrome DI 23022.234 Menkes Disease - Classic or Infantile Onset Form DI 23022.969 Merkel Cell Carcinoma - with metastasis DI 23022.825 Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy DI 23022.450 Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - Late Infantile DI 23022.235 Microvillus Inclusion Disease – Child DI 23022.453 Mitral Valve Atresia DI 23022.575 Mixed Dementia DI 23022.455 Mowat-Wilson Syndrome DI 23022.457 MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome DI 23022.415 MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome DI 23022.410 MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome DI 23022.495 Mucosal Melanoma DI 23022.460 Multicentric Castleman Disease DI 23022.625 Multiple System Atrophy DI 23022.630 Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Excess Blasts DI 23022.463 Myocolonic Epilepsy and Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome DI 23022.830 Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy DI 23022.465 (Neonatal) Glutaric Acidemia DI 23022.470 Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis DI 23022.835 NFU-1 Mitochondrial Disease DI 23022.971 Nicolaides-Baraitser Syndrome DI 23022.236 Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) -- type A DI 23022.240 Niemann-Pick Disease Type C DI 23022.475 Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia DI 23022.973 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer -- with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.245 NUT Carcinoma DI 23022.477 Obliterative Bronchiolitis DI 23022.840 Ohtahara Syndrome DI 23022.845 Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor- Grade III DI 23022.246 Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency DI 23022.250 Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia DI 23022.850 Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) -- Type II DI 23022.255 Osteosarcoma, formerly known as Bone Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.120 Ovarian Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable DI 23022.260 Pallister-Killian Syndrome DI 23022.261 Pancreatic Cancer DI 23022.265 Paraneoplastic Pemphigus DI 23022.635 Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13) DI 23022.480 Pearson Syndrome DI 23022.855 Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease -- Classic Form DI 23022.860 Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease -- Connatal Form DI 23022.865 Pericardial Mesothelioma DI 23022.266 Peripheral Nerve Cancer -- metastatic or recurrent DI 23022.870 Peritoneal Mesothelioma DI 23022.270 Peritoneal Mucinous Carcinomatosis DI 23022.975 Perry Syndrome DI 23022.875 Pfeiffer Syndrome - Types II and III DI 23022.481 Phelan-McDermid Syndrome DI 23022.977 Pitt Hopkins Syndrome DI 23022.877 Pleural Mesothelioma DI 23022.275 Pompe Disease -- Infantile DI 23022.280 Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia DI 23022.482 Posterior Cortical Atrophy DI 23022.643 Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma DI 23022.640 Primary Effusion Lymphoma DI 23022.645 Primary Peritoneal Cancer DI 23022.483 Primary Progressive Aphasia DI 23022.485 Progressive Bulbar Palsy DI 23022.281 Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy DI 23022.490 Progressive Supranuclear Palsy DI 23022.650 Prostate Cancer- Hormone Refractory Disease— or with visceral metastases DI 23022.282 Pulmonary Atresia DI 23022.585 Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma DI 23022.655 Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma DI 23022.283 Renal Amyloidosis - AL Type DI 23022.878 Renpenning Syndrome DI 23022.284 Retinopathy of Prematurity - Stage V DI 23022.979 Rett (RTT) Syndrome DI 23022.285 Revesez Syndrome DI 23022.286 Rhabdomyosarcoma DI 23022.880 Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata DI 23022.885 Richter Syndrome DI 23022.887 Roberts Syndrome DI 23022.981 Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome DI 23022.287 Salivary Tumors DI 23022.290 Sandhoff Disease DI 23022.295 Sarcomatoid Mesothelioma DI 23022.587 Schindler Disease -- Type I DI 23022.890 SCN8A-related Epilepsy with Encephalopathy DI 23022.496 Seckel Syndrome DI 23022.296 Secondary Adenocarcinoma of the Brain DI 23022.298 Severe Combined Immunodeficiency - Childhood DI 23022.983 Single Ventricle DI 23022.590 Sinonasal Cancer DI 23022.985 Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome DI 23022.297 Skin Malignant Melanoma—with metastases DI 23022.810 Small-Cell Cancer of the Large Intestine DI 23022.300 Small-Cell Cancer of the Ovary DI 23022.305 Small-Cell Cancer of the Prostate DI 23022.310 Small-Cell Cancer of the Thymus DI 23022.311 Small-Cell Cancer of the Uterus DI 23022.315 Small-Cell Lung Cancer DI 23022.320 Small Intestine Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.325 Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome DI 23022.895 Soft Tissue Sarcoma – with distant metastases or recurrent DI 23022.326 Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) -- Types 0 and 1 DI 23022.330 Spinal Nerve Root Cancer -- metastatic or recurrent DI 23022.900 Spinocerebellar Ataxia DI 23022.500 Stiff Person Syndrome DI 23022.905 Stomach Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.335 Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis DI 23022.505 Superficial Siderosis of the Central Nervous System DI 23022.337 SYNGAP1-related NSID DI 23022.238 Tabes Dorsalis DI 23022.910 Tay Sachs Disease DI 23022.510 Taybi-Linder Syndrome DI 23022.341 Tetrasomy 18p DI 23022.343 Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1 DI 23022.515 The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex DI 23022.660 Thyroid Cancer DI 23022.340 Transplant Coronary Artery Vasculopathy DI 23022.987 Tricuspid Atresia DI 23022.595 Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy DI 23022.520 Ureter Cancer -- with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent DI 23022.345 Usher Syndrome - Type I DI 23022.989 Ventricular Assist Device Recipient DI 23022.570 Walker Warburg Syndrome DI 23022.525 Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome DI 23022.915 Wolman Disease DI 23022.530 Xeroderma Pigmentosum DI 23022.920 X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease DI 23022.346 X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy DI 23022.347 Zellweger Syndrome DI 23022.535 What is the most approved disability?What Is the Most Approved Disability? Arthritis and other musculoskeletal system disabilities make up the most commonly approved conditions for social security disability benefits. This is because arthritis is so common. In the United States, over 58 million people suffer from arthritis.
What is considered to be a disability?The law defines disability as the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity (SGA) by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months.
Is pulmonary atresia considered a disability?If your child was born with Pulmonary Atresia, you can find a bit of peace in the knowledge that he or she will definitely qualify for Social Security Disability benefits. You can add to that peace by having your case reviewed by a Social Security Disability lawyer.
What is the Cal list?The program allows Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled applicants and grants them benefits soon after applying. Claiming to have a disability or disease that's on the Compassionate Allowance list (CAL) is enough to put your application for benefits on the fast track for approval.
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