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Social Security Adds 13 Disabilities to the Compassionate Allowances
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The Social Security Compassionate Allowances program fast-tracks disability decisions to ensure that Americans with the most serious disabilities receive their benefit decisions within days instead of months or years. Commissioner Michael J. Astrue recently announced the addition of 13 conditions to the existing list, bringing the total number of Compassionate Allowances conditions to 113.
The recently added conditions include certain cancers, adult brain disorders, a number of rare genetic disorders of children, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and other disorders (see list of new Compassional Allowances Conditions below.)
New Compassionate Allowances Conditions
The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
Angelman Syndrome
Corticobasal Degeneration
Lewy Body Dementia
Lowe Syndrome
Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
Multicentric Castleman Disease
Multiple System Atrophy
Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Primary Effusion Lymphoma
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
To view a complete list of Social Security Compassional Allowances Conditions, go to: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/...ances/conditions.htm
Jeannette Lindenman
Director of Professional & Corporate Advocacy Services
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