SSDI offers rapid decisions for more conditions

Congress created the Compassionate Allowances program for people with severe, relatively easy-to-assess problems, in an effort to help those applicants get benefits decisions within about 20 days.

About 200,000 people have received benefits approvals through the fast-track process, officials say.

Here’s the list of conditions added to the program:

1. Angiosarcoma
2. Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
3. Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction
4. Coffin-Lowry Syndrome
5. Esthesioneuroblastoma
6. Giant Axonal Neuropathy
7. Hoyeaal-Hreidarsson Syndrome
8. Intracranial Hemangiopericytoma
9. Joubert Syndrome
10. Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis
11. Liposarcoma-metastatic or recurrent
12. Malignant Ectomesenchymoma
13. Malignant Renal Rhabdoid Tumor
14. Marshall-Smith Syndrome
15. Oligodendroglioma Brain Tumor – Grade III
16. Pallister-Killian Syndrome
17. Progressive Bulbar Palsy
18. Prostate Cancer – Hormone Refractory Disease – or with visceral metastases
19. Revesz Syndrome
20. Seckel Syndrome
21. Sjogren-Larsson Syndrome
22. Small Cell Cancer of the Thymus
23. Soft Tissue Sarcoma with distant metastases or recurren
24. X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease
25. X-Linked Myotubular Myopathy

See also:

• Social Security expands rapid disability review program
• Stable Condition
• SSDI Speeds Up Process For Some Conditions