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Prepared for TIC by Mike Ewing, J.D.
Director of Research
United Actuarial Services, Inc.
(317) 580-8659
Fax (317) 580-8651
email: mewing@unitedactuarial.com
© United Actuarial Services, Inc. 2010
2010-18
March 11, 2010
Social Security Administration Announces 38 New
Conditions Under Its “Compassionate Allowances”
Program That Qualify Individuals for Expedited Disability
Benefit Determinations
The Social Security Administration recently announced it was adding 38
“Compassionate Allowances” conditions to the 50 already approved conditions. By
identifying which applicants for Social Security Disability benefits meet the criteria
for a Compassionate Allowance, such individuals may be approved for benefits “in a
matter of days rather than months and years”, said the Social Security
Commissioner Michael J. Asture.
Compassionate Allowances
are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other
medical conditions that invariably qualify as disabilities based on minimal objective
medical information. Compassionate Allowances
allow Social Security to quickly
target these disabled individuals for Social Security Disability benefits.
Pension plan trustees may find these Compassionate Allowances useful in helping to
“fast-track” disability requests that fall under one of the 88 Compassionate
Allowances conditions.
The initial list of 50 Compassionate Allowances
conditions contains 25
types of
cancers and 25 rare diseases and is available by “clicking here.”
The expanded list of 38 new conditions expands the scope of allowances to include
conditions like early onset Alzheimer’s disease and is available by “clicking here.”
The Social Security Compassionate Allowances
webpage
is located at
information
about how Compassionate Allowances are processed is available at:
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