The Social Security Administration (“SSA”) added 9 new conditions to the Compassionate Allowances program. SSA also revised two conditions that were already on the Compassionate Allowances list. This brings the total number of conditions on the list to 287. Disabilities that comprise the Compassionate Allowance list represent the most serious disabilities that affect individuals. The purpose of the program is to expedite disability decisions, so individuals suffering from these severe diseases receive their benefit decisions as quick as possible. More than one million people with life-threatening disabilities have received their benefits through this expedited process. The new additions include:
1.
Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome
2.
Costello Syndrome
3.
Adult Heart Transplant Wait List -
Status Levels 1-4
4.
Child Heart Transplant Wait List -
Status Levels 1A/1B (revised existing condition)
5.
Histiocytic Malignancies
6.
Histiocytosis Syndromes (revised
existing condition)
7.
Neonatal Marfan Syndrome
8.
PACS1 Syndrome
9.
Plasmablastic Lymphoma
10. Renal Medullary Carcinoma
11. Snijders Blok-Campeau Syndrome
To see a complete list of all the impairments which qualify for the Compassionate Allowances program, visit this website: https://www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm/.
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