Social Security Compassionate Allowance List – 2017
Social Security Compassionate Allowance List (2017)
Having a condition on the Compassionate Allowance List typically means that a Social Security applicant’s claim will be processed faster. But it does not mean that the Social Security claim will be “automatically” approved in every case. Many of the impairments on the CAL are considered to be disabling based on a diagnosis alone. But some other conditions on the Compassionate Allowance List must still meet certain criteria of severity.
New conditions have been added to the Social Security Compassionate Allowance List every year since it was instituted in 2008. The list below ios current as of 2017.
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Complete Social Security Compassionate Allowance List – 2017
Acute Leukemia
Adrenal Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Adult Onset Huntington Disease
Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome
Alexander Disease (ALX) — Neonatal and Infantile
Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome
Alobar Holoprosencephaly
Alpers Disease
Alpha Mannosidosis – Type II and III
Alstrom Syndrome
Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma
Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Angelman Syndrome
Aortic Atresia
Angiosarcoma
Aplastic Anemia
Astrocytoma — GRADE III and IV
Ataxia Telangiectasia
Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
Batten Disease
Beta Thalassemia Major
Bilateral Optic Atrophy- Infantile
Bilateral Retinoblastoma
Bladder Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
Breast Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
CACH- Vanishing White Matter Disease- Infantile and Childhood Onset Forms
Canavan Disease (CD)
Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site
Cardiac Amyloidosis- AL Type
Caudal Regression Syndrome- Types III and IV
Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis
Child Neuroblastoma- – with distant metastasis or recurrent
Child Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma- – recurrent
Child T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma
Chondrosarcoma- – with multimodal therapy
Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia — Blast Phase
Coffin-Lowry Syndrome
Congenital Lymphedema
Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome- – Classic Form
Corticobasal Degeneration
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) — Adult
Cri du Chat Syndrome
Degos Disease, Systemic
DeSanctis Cacchione Syndrome
Dravet Syndrome
Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
Eisenmenger Syndrome
Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma
Endomyocardial Fibrosis
Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
Esophageal Cancer
Esthesioneuroblastoma
Ewing Sarcoma
Farber’s Disease (FD) — Infantile
Fatal Familial Insomnia
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – – metastatic or recurrent
Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Picks Disease –Type A – Adult
Fryns Syndrome
Fucosidosis – Type I
Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis
Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types
Gallbladder Cancer
Gaucher Disease (GD) –Type 2
Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
Glioma Grade III and IV
Giant Axonal Neuropathy
Gluteric Acidemia – Type II
Head and Neck Cancers — with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
Heart Transplant Graft Failure
Heart Transplant Wait List – 1A/1B
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Hepatoblastoma
Hepatopulmonary Syndrome
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Histiocytosis Syndromes
Hoyeaal-Hreidarsson Syndrome
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)
Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma
Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome
Joubert Syndrome
Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa Lethal Type
Juvenile Onset Huntington Disease
Kidney Cancer — inoperable or unresectable
Kleefstra Syndrome
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
Leigh’s Disease
Leiomyosarcoma
Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
Lewy Body Dementia
Liposarcoma – metastatic or recurrent
Lissencephaly
Liver Cancer
Lowe Syndrome
Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis – Grade III
Malignant Brain Stem Gliomas – Childhood
Malignant Ectomesenchymoma
Malignant Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Malignant Germ Cell Tumor
Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor
Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
Marshall-Smith Syndrome
Mastocytosis – Type IV
MECP 2 Duplication Syndrome
Medulloblastoma – with metastasis
Menkes Disease – Classic or Infantile Onset Form
Merkel Cell Carcinoma – with metastasis
Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy – Late Infantile
Mitral Valve Atresia
Mixed Dementia
MPS I, formerly known as Hurler Syndrome
MPS II, formerly known as Hunter Syndrome
MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
Mucosal Melanoma
Multicentric Castleman Disease
Multiple System Atrophy
Myocolonic Epilepsy and Ragged Red Fibers Syndrome
Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
(Neonatal) Glutaric Acidemia
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis
NFU-1 Mitochondrial Disease
Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) — type A
Niemann-Pick Disease Type C
Nonketotic Hyperglycinemia
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer — with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Obliterative Bronchiolitis
Ohtahara Syndrome
Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor- Grade III
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
Pallister-Killian Syndrome
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
Peritoneal Mucinous Carcinomatosis
Perry Syndrome
Phelan-McDermid Syndrome
Pleural Mesothelioma
Pompe Disease — Infantile
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Primary Effusion Lymphoma
Primary Progressive Aphasia
Progressive Bulbar Palsy
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prostate Cancer- Hormone Refractory Disease— or with visceral metastases
Pulmonary Atresia
Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
Retinopathy of Prematurity- Stage V
Rett (RTT) Syndrome
Revesez Syndrome
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata
Roberts Syndrome
Salivary Tumors
Sandhoff Disease
Schindler Disease – – Type I
Seckel Syndrome
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency- Childhood
Single Ventricle
Sinonasal Cancer
Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
Skin Malignant Melanoma—with metastases
Small -Cell Cancer of the Large Intestine
Small- Cell Cancer of the Ovary
Small- Cell Cancer of the Prostate
Small- Cell Cancer of the Thymus
Small- Cell Cancer of the Uterus
Small- Cell Lung Cancer
Small Intestine Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Smith Lemli Opitz Syndrome
Soft Tissue Sarcoma – with distant metastases or recurrent
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
Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex
Thyroid Cancer
Transplant Coronary Artery Vasculopathy
Tricuspid Atresia
Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
Ureter Cancer — with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
Usher Syndrome- Type I
Ventricular Assist Device Recipient
Walker Warburg Syndrome
Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome
Wolman Disease
Xeroderma Pigmentosum
X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease
X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy
Zellweger Syndrome
Our Long Beach Social Security Lawyers Can Help
If you or a loved one is suffering from one of these disabilities, our experienced and compassionate Social Security lawyers can help you request a Quick Disability Determination (“QDD”). Our Social Security lawyers can also help you understand if your diagnosis alone automatically qualifies you for Social Security benefits and/or if you still must submit proof of severity.
