News: Social Security has added thirteen new medical conditions to its list of Compassionate Allowances.
The Compassionate Allowances program was created to fast-track disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years. Social Security launched the Compassionate Allowances program in 2008 with a list of 50 diseases and conditions. The announcement of 13 new conditions, effective in December, will increase the total number of Compassionate Allowances conditions to 113.
New Compassionate Allowances Conditions:
– Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
– Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
– Multicentric Castleman Disease
– Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
– Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
– Primary Effusion Lymphoma
– Angelman Syndrome
– Lewy Body Dementia
– Lowe Syndrome
– Corticobasal Degeneration
– Multiple System Atrophy
– Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
– The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
For more information on the Compassionate Allowances initiative, please visit www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances.