Social Security Disability Compassionate Allowance Conditions

  1. Acute Leukemia
  2. Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  3. Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
  4. Alstrom Syndrome
  5. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
  6. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
  7. Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  8. Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
  9. Ataxia Spinocerebellar
  10. Ataxia Telangiectasia
  11. Batten Disease
  12. Bilateral Retinoblastoma
  13. Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  14. Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  15. Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  16. Canavan Disease (CD)
  17. Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
  18. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
  19. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
  20. Cri du Chat Syndrome
  21. Degos Disease
  22. Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
  23. Edwards Syndrome
  24. Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
  25. Esophageal Cancer
  26. Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
  27. Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
  28. Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
  29. Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
  30. Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  31. Gallbladder Cancer
  32. Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
  33. Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)
  34. Glutaric Acidemia Type II
  35. Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
  36. Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
  37. Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
  38. Hunter Syndrome, Type II
  39. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  40. Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
  41. Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
  42. Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
  43. Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
  44. Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
  45. Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  46. Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  47. Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
  48. Leigh’s Disease
  49. Liver Cancer
  50. Maple Syrup Urine Disease
  51. Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
  52. Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  53. Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
  54. Mixed Dementia
  55. Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
  56. Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
  57. Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
  58. Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
  59. Niemann-Pick Type C
  60. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  61. Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
  62. Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
  63. Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
  64. Pancreatic Cancer
  65. Patau Syndrome
  66. Peritoneal Mesothelioma
  67. Pleural Mesothelioma
  68. Pompe Disease - Infantile
  69. Primary Progressive Aphasia
  70. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
  71. Rett (RTT) Syndrome
  72. Salivary Tumors
  73. Sandhoff Disease
  74. Sanfilippo Syndrome
  75. Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
  76. Small Cell Lung Cancer
  77. Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  78. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
  79. Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  80. Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
  81. Tay Sachs Disease
  82. Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
  83. Thyroid Cancer
  84. Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
  85. Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
  86. Walker Warburg Syndrome
  87. Wolman Disease
  88. Zellweger Syndrome

Click here for the list of the new 12 Social Security Disability Compassionate Allowance Conditions added on July 14, 2011