Faced with the reality of an unprecedented backlog of 3.2 million claims in 2011, and longer wait times for applicants, the Social Security Administration (SSA) utilizes its Compassionate Allowances program in an effort to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet
disability standards.
Here is the SSA's complete list of compassionate allowances - 165 conditions total:
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
- Alexander Disease (ALX) - neonatal and infantile
- Alobar Holoprosencephaly
- Alpers Disease
- Alpha Mannosidosis
- Alstrom Syndrome
- ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
- Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Angelman Syndrome
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Aortic Atresia
- Astrocytoma - grade III and IV
- Ataxia Spinocerebellar
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Batten Disease
- Bilateral Retinoblastoma
- Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Canavan Disease (CD)
- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
- Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
- Child Neuroblastoma
- Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Chondrosarcoma with multimodal therapy
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - blast phase
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome-Classic Form
- Corticobasal Degeneration
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – adult
- Cri du Chat Syndrome
- Degos Disease
- Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
- Edwards Syndrome
- Eisenmenger Syndrome
- Endomyocardial Fibrosis
- Ependymoblastoma (child brain tumor)
- Esophageal Cancer
- Ewings Sarcoma
- Farber's Disease (FD) – infantile
- Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
- Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
- Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma with metastases
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A – adult
- Fucosidosis - Type 1
- Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Galactosialidosis - Early Infantile Type
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
- Glioblastoma Multiforme (brain tumor)
- Glioma Grade III and IV
- Glutaric Acidemia Type II
- Hallervorden-Spatz Disease
- Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
- Heart Transplant Graft Failure
- Heart Transplant Wait List - 1A/1B
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), familial type
- Hepatoblastoma
- Histiocytosis
- Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
- Hunter Syndrome, Type II
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis
- Hypophosphatasia Perinatal lethal Form
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- I Cell disease
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease
- Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
- Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
- Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
- Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
- Krabbe Disease (KD) – infantile
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- Kufs Disease Type A and B
- Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
- Leigh’s Disease
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Lissencephaly
- Liver Cancer
- Lowe Syndrome
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Grade III
- Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas - Childhood
- Malignant Melanoma with metastases
- Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
- Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Mastocytosis Type IV
- Medulloblastoma with metastasis
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma with metastases
- Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - late infantile
- Mitral Valve Atresia
- Mixed Dementia
- Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
- Multicentric Castleman Disease
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Myocolonic Epilepsy and Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
- Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
- Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, infantile type
- Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
- Niemann-Pick Type C
- Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Obliterative Bronchiolitis
- Ohtahara Syndrome
- Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
- Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
- Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
- Patau Syndrome
- Pearson Syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
- Peripheral Nerve Cancer - metastatic or recurrent
- Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Perry Syndrome
- Pleural Mesothelioma
- Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
- Primary Effusion Lymphoma
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Pompe Disease – infantile
- Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
- Pulmonary Atresia
- Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
- Rett (RTT) Syndrome
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
- Salivary Tumors
- Sanfilippo Syndrome
- Sandhoff Disease
- Schindler Disease Type 1
- Single Ventricle
- Small Cell Cancer (of the large intestine, ovary, prostate, or uterus)
- Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
- Spinal Nerve Root Cancer- metastatic or recurrent
- Stiff Person Syndrome
- Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
- Tabes Dorsalis
- Tay Sachs Disease
- Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
- Thyroid Cancer
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Walker Warburg Syndrome
- Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
- Wolman Disease
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- Zellweger Syndrome
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Even if your condition is on this list, SSDI representation is essential due to the complex nature of the SSDI process.
Request a no-cost, no obligation
disability evaluation to determine your eligibility for Social Security disability.
Source: Social Security Administration, 2012