Compassionate Allowances – Part 1

If a person has particular medical conditions, does that make their case easier to win, and what are Compassionate Allowance/TERI cases?

There are few medical conditions that make a case “easy”. However, there are particular medical conditions that are given priority. Compassionate Allowances is a term used when a person is diagnosed with particular medical conditions and in nearly all cases, these cases are paid without the need for a hearing. The medical conditions termed “Compassionate Allowances” are dictated by the Social Security Administration, not by your lawyer or doctor. To discuss whether you have a compassionate allowance case, please call the Montgomery Social Security lawyers at The Sellers Law Firm.

For a full list and description of the Compassionate Allowances you may go to www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm. However, they are as follows:

1. Acute Leukemia
2. Adrenal Cancer–with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3. Alexander Disease (ALX)–neonatal and infantile
4. Alstrom Syndome
5. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopnia
6. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
7. Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer–with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
8. Angelman Syndrome
9. Aortic Atresia
10. Astrocytoma–Grade III and IV
11. Ataxia Telangiectasia
12. Batten Disease
13. Bilateral Retinoblastoma
14. Bladder Cancer–with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
15. Bone Cancer–with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
16. Breast Cancer–with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
17. Canavan Disease (CD)
18. Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
19. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)–Blast Phase
20. Coricobasal Degeneration
21. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)–Adult
22. Cri du Chat Syndrome
23. Degos Disease, Systemic
24. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
25. Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
26. Eisenmenger Syndrome
27. Endomyocardial Fibrosis
28. Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
29. Esophageal Cancer
30. Farber’s Disease (FD)–Infantile
31. Fibrodyslplasia Ossificans Progressiva
32. Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
33. Frontotemporal Demential (FTD), Picks Disease–Type A–Adult
34. Fukuyama Congential Muscular Dystrophy
35. Gallbladder Cancer
36. Gaucher Disease (GD)–Type 2
37. Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
38. Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
39. Head and Neck Cancer–with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
40. Heart Transplant Graft Failure
41. Heart Transplant Wait List, 1A/1B
42. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
43. Hypoplastic
44. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
45. Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
46. Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
47. Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
48. Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
49. Kidney Cancer – inoperable or unresectable
50. Krabbe Disease (KD) – Infantile
51. Large Intestine Cancer – with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
52. Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
53. Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
54. Leigh’s Disease
55. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
56. Lewy Body Dementia
57. Liver Cancer
58. Lowe Syndrome
59. Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
60. Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
61. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
62. Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
63. Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) – Late Infantile
64. Mitral Valve Atresia
65. Mixed Dementias
66. MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
67. MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
68. MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
69. Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
70. Multicentric Castleman Disease
71. Multiple System Atrophy
72. Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
73. Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) – Type A
74. Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
75. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer – with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
76. Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
77. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) – Type II
78. Ovarian Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
79. Pancreatic Cancer
80. Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
81. Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
82. Peritoneal Mesothelioma
83. Pleural Mesothelioma
84. Pompe Disease – Infantile
85. Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
86. Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
87. Primary Effusion Lymphoma
88. Primary Progressive Aphasia
89. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
90. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
91. Pulmonary Atresia
92. Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
93. Rett (RTT) Syndrome
94. Salivary Tumors
95. Sandhoff Disease
96. Single Ventricle
97. Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
98. Small Cell Lung Cancer
99. Small Intestine Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
100. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 And 1
101. Spinocerebellar Ataxia
102. Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
103. Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
104. Tay Sachs Disease – Infantile Type
105. Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
106. The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
107. Thyroid Cancer
108. Tricuspid Atresia
109. Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
110. Ureter Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
111. Walker Warburg Syndrome
112. Wolman Disease
113. Zellweger Syndrome

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