Compassionate Allowance

The Social Security Administration recognizes that it has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.

Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.

The initial list of Compassionate Allowance conditions was developed as a result of information received at public outreach hearings, public comment on an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Service communities, and the counsel of medical and scientific experts. Social Security also considered which conditions are most likely to meet our current definition of disability.

Please see the following link for a list of the 50 conditions that were selected for rollout of the Compassionate Allowances initiative. Social Security has indicated that the list will expand over time. HERE

Any questions may be directed to: rsi5@srt.com