WASHINGTON,D.C. (WDNews) — The Social Security Administration has added 13 medical conditions to its Compassionate Allowances (CAL) list, expediting the disability application process for people with the most severe diagnoses.
The CAL program speeds up benefit decisions for applicants whose conditions meet Social Security’s definition of disability. With the latest additions, the list now includes 300 conditions, and since its creation, more than 1.1 million people have been approved under the initiative.
The new conditions are:
- Au-Kline Syndrome
- Bilateral Anophthalmia
- Carey-Fineman-Ziter Syndrome
- Harlequin Ichthyosis – Child
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- LMNA-related Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Progressive Muscular Atrophy
- Pulmonary Amyloidosis – AL Type
- Rasmussen Encephalitis
- Thymic Carcinoma
- Turnpenny-Fry Syndrome
- WHO Grade III Meningiomas
- Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim Syndrome.
“We are constantly looking for ways to improve our disability programs and serve the public more effectively,” SSA Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano said. “By adding these 13 conditions to the Compassionate Allowances list, we are helping more people with devastating diagnoses quickly receive the support they need.”
Through the Health IT program, Social Security can securely receive electronic medical records from some providers, helping adjudicators make faster and more accurate decisions.
For more information and a complete list of CAL conditions, visit ssa.gov/compassionateallowances.
