New Conditions Added to the SSI Compassionate Allowance List

A few new conditions have been added to the Compassionate Allowance list for fast track response, bringing the total list of conditions to 266 conditions.  

The complete list of newly added conditions is:

Malignant Multiple Sclerosis
Paraneoplastic Pemphigus
Multicentric Castleman Disease
Pulmonary Kaposi Sarcoma
Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
Primary Effusion Lymphoma
Angelman Syndrome
Lewy Body Dementia
Lowe Syndrome
Corticobasal Degeneration
Multiple System Atrophy
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
The ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma

Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm

Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease

Microvillus inclusion disease – Child

Mowat-Wilson syndrome

Myelodysplastic syndrome with excess blasts

NUT carcinoma

Pfeiffer syndrome – Types II and III

Pontocerebellar hypoplasia

Posterior cortical atrophy

Renal amyloidosis – AL type

Sarcomatoid mesothelioma.

For general info on compassionate allowances see: www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances