Compassionate Allowance Disability Cases
Social Security Disability Lawyer
The Social Security Administration provides expedited benefits for medical conditions that are so serious that they meet disability standards. The Compassionate Allowance List (CAL) is a way to quickly identify diseases and medical conditions that qualify under the listing of impairments based on minimal objective medical information.
The following is the Compassionate Allowance List (CAL):
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
- Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile
- Alobar Holoprosencephaly
- Alpers Disease
- Alpha Mannosidosis – Type II and III
- Alstrom Syndrome
- Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
- 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
- Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Canavan Disease (CD)
- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
- Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
- Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
- Child Neuroblastoma – with distant metastases or recurrent
- Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma – recurrent
- Chondrosarcoma – with multimodal therapy
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome-Classic Form
- Corticobasal 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 (Cild Brain Tumor)
- Esophageal Cancer
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Farber’s Disease (FD) – Infantile
- Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
- Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
- Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A – Adult
- Fucosidosis – Type 1
- Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gaucher Disease (GD) – Type 2
- Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
- Glioma Grade III and IV
- Glutaric Acidemia – Type II
- Head and Neck Cancers – with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
- Heart Transplant Graft Failure
- Heart Transplant Wait List, 1A/1B
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
- Hepatoblastoma
- Histiocytosis Syndromes
- Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
- Hydranencephaly
- Hypocomplementemic Urticarial Vasculitis Syndrome
- Hypophosphatasia Perinatal (Lethal) and Infantile Onset Types
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- I Cell disease
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Infantile Free Sialic Acid Storage Disease
- Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
- Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
- Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
- Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
- Kidney Cancer – inoperable or unresectable
- Krabbe Disease (KD) – Infantile
- Kufs Disease Type A and B
- 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
- Lissencephaly
- Liver Cancer
- Lowe Syndrome
- Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis – Grade III
- Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
- Malignant Melanoma – with metastases
- Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
- Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Mastocytosis Type IV
- Medulloblastoma – with metastases
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma – with metastases
- 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
- Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
- Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
- Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation – Type 1 and Type 2
- 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
- Obliterative Bronchiolitis
- Ohtahara Syndrome
- Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
- Orthochromatic Leukodystrophy with Pigmented Glia
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) – Type II
- Osteosarcoma, formerly known as Bone Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Ovarian Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
- Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
- Pearson Syndrome
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Classic Form
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease-Connatal Form
- Peripheral Nerve Cancer – metastatic or recurrent
- Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Perry Syndrome
- 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
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
- Salivary Tumors
- Sandhoff Disease
- Schindler Disease Type 1
- 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
- Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
- Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) – Types 0 And 1
- Spinal Nerve Root Cancer-metastatic or recurrent
- Spinocerebellar Ataxia
- Stiff Person Syndrome
- Stomach Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
- Tabes Dorsalis
- 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
- Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
- Wolman Disease
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum
- Zellweger Syndrome
If you are suffering from one of the Compassionate Allowance disorders and need help, please contact Social Security Disability lawyer, Fred J. Fleming, today by calling us at 1-800-882-5500 or filling out our form for a free consultation.
