Compassionate Allowances (CAL) are the Social Security Administration’s “way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information.” The Compassionate Allowance program was designed to allow applicants with serious medical conditions to receive their benefits more quickly.
52 Compassionate Allowances conditions were added effective August 11, 2012, increasing the list from 113 to 165.
The added conditions were:
- Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
- Alobar Holoprosencephaly
- Alpers Disease
- Alpha Mannosidosis – Type II and III
- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
- Child Neuroblastoma – with distant metastases or recurrent
- Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma – recurrent
- Chondrosarcoma – with multimodal therapy
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome-Classic Form
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
- Fucosidosis – Type 1
- Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types
- Glioma Grade III and IV
- Hepatoblastoma
- Histiocytosis Syndromes
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome
- Hypophosphatasia Perinatal (Lethal) and Infantile Onset Types
- I Cell disease
- Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease
- Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
- Kufs Disease Type A and B
- Lissencephaly
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis – Grade III
- Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
- Malignant Melanoma – with metastases
- Mastocytosis Type IV
- Medulloblastoma – with metastases
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma – with metastases
- Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
- Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
- Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation – Type 1 and Type 2
- Obliterative Bronchiolitis
- Ohtahara Syndrome
- Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
- Pearson Syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
- Peripheral Nerve Cancer – metastatic or recurrent
- Perry Syndrome
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
- Schindler Disease Type 1
- Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
- Spinal Nerve Root Cancer-metastatic or recurrent
- Stiff Person Syndrome
- Tabes Dorsalis
- Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
A full list of allowances can be found at socialsecurity.gov. Hopefully, if you have one of these conditions, you will not need a Social Security disability attorney to help get your case approved. If you should need assistance, call Loyd Bourgeois for a free case evaluation at 985-240-9773.