The Social Security Administration recently announced twenty five (25) new medical conditions that qualify for Compassionate Allowances (CAL). Social Security created the Compassionate Allowances program as a method to expedite the disability decision making process for the Americans with the most serious illnesses to ensure that they receive disability decisions within days instead of months or years. The twenty five (25) new Compassionate Allowances Conditions are, as follows:
1. Angiosarcoma
2. Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
3. Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
4. Coffin- Lowry Syndrome
5. Esthesioneuroblastoma
6. Giant Axonal Neuropathy
7. Hoyeaal-Hreidarsson Syndrome
8. Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma
9. Joubert Syndrome
10. Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
11. Liposarcoma- metastatic or recurrent
12. Malignant Ectomesenchymoma
13. Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor
14. Marshall-Smith Syndrome
15. Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor- Grade III
16. Pallister-Killian Syndrome
17. Progressive Bulbar Palsy
18. Prostate Cancer – Hormone Refractory Disease – or with visceral metastases
19. Revesz Syndrome
20. Seckel Syndrome
21. Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
22. Small Cell Cancer of the Thymus
23. Soft Tissue Sarcoma- with distant metastases or recurrent
24. X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease
25. X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy
There are now two hundred and twenty five (225) medical conditions that qualify for Compassionate Allowances. If you have any questions regarding Compassionate Allowances, please contact our Alabama Social Security Disability Attorneys.
