(Gray News) – The Social Security Administration added 14 health conditions to its Compassionate Allowances List, a program that enables the expedited approval of Social Security disability benefits for people with rare, severe, or life-threatening medical conditions.
This list was created in 2008.
What health conditions did the Social Security Administration include on its Compassionate Allowances List?
These are the new health conditions added to the Compassionate Allowances List:
- Adenylosuccinate Lyase deficiency – Neonatal Form and Type 1 (Adenylosuccinate Lyase deficiency – Neonatal Form and Type 1)
- Aicardi syndrome (Aicardi syndrome)
- Baraitser-Winter syndrome
- Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome (Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome)
- Bohring-Opitz syndrome
- CASK-related gene disorders (CASK-related gene disorders)
- Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma (Hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma)
- Lafora disease (Lafora disease)
- Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy
- OPHN1 syndrome (OPHN1 syndrome)
- Primary cardiac sarcoma (Primary cardiac sarcoma)
- Primary intracranial malignant melanoma (Primary intracranial malignant melanoma)
- Uveal melanoma with metastases (Uveal Melanoma — with metastases)
- Warburg micro syndrome
The list now includes 314 health conditions.
