List of Compassionate Allowance Conditions
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has compiled a list of serious disabilities that undoubtedly meet disability standards. The SSA has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information.
Social Security disability attorney Shawn Taylor ensures that clients with serious injuries quickly receive the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to which they are entitled.
The list of compassionate allowance conditions below continues to expand. Contact our attorneys to learn more about compassionate allowances and whether your condition is included.
List of Compassionate Allowance Conditions
- Acute Leukemia
- Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
- Alstrom Syndrome
- Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
- Ataxia Spinocerebellar
- 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
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
- Cri du Chat Syndrome
- Degos Disease
- Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
- Edwards Syndrome
- Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
- Esophageal Cancer
- Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
- Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
- Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
- Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
- Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
- Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
- Glutaric Acidemia Type II
- Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
- Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
- Hunter Syndrome, Type II
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
- 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
- Leigh’s Disease
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
- Liver Cancer
- Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
- Maple Syrup Urine Disease
- Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
- Mixed Dementia
- Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
- Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
- Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Types A and 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
- Patau Syndrome
- Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Pleural Mesothelioma
- Pompe Disease - Infantile
- Primary Progressive Aphasia
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Rett (RTT) Syndrome
- Salivary Tumors
- Sandhoff Disease
- Sanfilippo Syndrome
- 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
- Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
- Tay Sachs Disease
- Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
- Thyroid Cancer
- Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
- Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
- Walker Warburg Syndrome
- Wolman Disease
- Zellweger Syndrome
Our SSDI / SSI staff have the experience, skills and resources to navigate through the Social Security Administration's court system. We approach every case with the client's best interest in mind. Contact Farmer, Cline & Campbell PLLC for a free consultation today.

