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Certain cancers and rare diseases get fast-track disability review


Posted on Nov 07, 2008

The Social Security Administration is launching the second piece of their Compassionate Allowances program which allows for an expedited decision to be made on cases where the claimant suffers from an eligible rare disease or cancer. The commissioner of Social Security, Michael J. Astrue, stated that this initiative will allow them to make decisions on cases where a claimant fits the criteria in a matter of days, rather than months or years. Once the Social Security's Compassionate Allowances program is fully implemented and combined with their Quick Disability Determination process, it should result in 6 to 9 percent of disability claims being decided in an average of six to eight days. These types of cases currently affect 250,000 people annually.

The agency released their list of the 50 conditions that would render a claimant eligible to receive a compassionate allowance: 

 

1

  Acute Leukemia

2

  Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

3

  Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile

4

  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

5

  Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

6

  Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV

7

  Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

8

  Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

9

  Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

10

  Canavan Disease (CD)

11

  Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome

12

  Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase

13

  Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult

14

  Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)

15

  Esophageal Cancer

16

  Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile

17

  Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)

18

  Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult

19

  Gallbladder Cancer

20

  Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2

21

  Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)

22

  Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable

23

  Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)

24

  Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)

25

  Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable

26

  Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile

27

  Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

28

  Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)

29

  Liver Cancer

30

  Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)

31

  Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile

32

  Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A

33

  Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

34

  Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency

35

  Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II

36

  Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

37

  Pancreatic Cancer

38

  Peritoneal Mesothelioma

39

  Pleural Mesothelioma

40

  Pompe Disease - Infantile

41

  Rett (RTT) Syndrome

42

  Salivary Tumors

43

  Sandhoff Disease

44

  Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)

45

  Small Cell Lung Cancer

46

  Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

47

  Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1

48

  Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

49

  Thyroid Cancer

50

  Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or  recurrent

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