Compassionate Allowances - Part 1
If a person has particular medical conditions, does that make their case easier to win, and what are Compassionate Allowance/TERI cases?
There are few medical conditions that make a case "easy". However, there are particular medical conditions that are given priority. Compassionate Allowances is a term used when a person is diagnosed with particular medical conditions and in nearly all cases, these cases are paid without the need for a hearing. The medical conditions termed "Compassionate Allowances" are dictated by the Social Security Administration, not by your lawyer or doctor. To discuss whether you have a compassionate allowance case, please call the Montgomery Social Security lawyers at The Sellers Law Firm.
For a full list and description of the Compassionate Allowances you may go to www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm. However, they are as follows:
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Cancer--with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Alexander Disease (ALX)--neonatal and infantile
- Alstrom Syndome
- Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopnia
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer--with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Angelman Syndrome
- Aortic Atresia
- Astrocytoma--Grade III and IV
- Ataxia Telangiectasia
- Batten Disease
- Bilateral Retinoblastoma
- Bladder Cancer--with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Bone Cancer--with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Breast Cancer--with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Canavan Disease (CD)
- Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)--Blast Phase
- Coricobasal Degeneration
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)--Adult
- Cri du Chat Syndrome
- Degos Disease, Systemic
- Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease
- Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
- Eisenmenger Syndrome
- Endomyocardial Fibrosis
- Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
- Esophageal Cancer
- Farber's Disease (FD)--Infantile
- Fibrodyslplasia Ossificans Progressiva
- Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
- Frontotemporal Demential (FTD), Picks Disease--Type A--Adult
- Fukuyama Congential Muscular Dystrophy
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gaucher Disease (GD)--Type 2
- Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
- Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
- Head and Neck Cancer--with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
- Heart Transplant Graft Failure
- Heart Transplant Wait List, 1A/1B
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
- Hypoplastic
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
- Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
- Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
- Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
- Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
- Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
- Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Recipient
- Leigh's Disease
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
- Lewy Body Dementia
- Liver Cancer
- Lowe Syndrome
- Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
- Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
- Mitral Valve Atresia
- Mixed Dementias
- MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
- MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
- MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
- Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
- Multicentric Castleman Disease
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
- Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
- Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
- Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
- Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
- Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Pleural Mesothelioma
- Pompe Disease - Infantile
- Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis
- Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
- Primary Effusion Lymphoma
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Pulmonary Atresia
- Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
- Rett (RTT) Syndrome
- Salivary Tumors
- Sandhoff Disease
- Single Ventricle
- Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
- Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia
- Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
- Tay Sachs Disease - Infantile Type
- Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
- The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
- Thyroid Cancer
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Walker Warburg Syndrome
- Wolman Disease
- Zellweger Syndrome
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