A fresh press release from Social Security will provide some good news to potential beneficiaries who experience a range of disabilities.
Fourteen relatively obscure conditions have been added to the agency’s Compassionate Allowance policy. The policy allows Social Security to make a disability determination based solely on medical confirmation of the diagnosis of certain conditions and diseases and therefore allows benefits to be paid without any undue delay.
With this news SSA now allows for 314 conditions to meet the criteria. Its website does allow for submissions for new candidates (Submit the Name of a Condition For Consideration | Compassionate Allowances | SSA).
The 14 newcomers are:
- Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency – Neonatal Form and Type 1
- Aicardi Syndrome
- Baraitser-Winter Syndrome
- Beare-Stevenson Cutis Gyrata Syndrome
- Bohring-Opitz Syndrome
- CASK-Related Gene Disorders
- Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma
- Lafora Disease
- Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy (MMPSI)
- OPHN1 Syndrome
- Primary Cardiac Sarcoma
- Primary Intracranial Malignant Melanoma
- Uveal Melanoma – with Metastases
- Warburg Micro Syndrome
All 314 conditions can be found here Complete List of Conditions | Compassionate Allowances | SSA