14 Health Conditions Added to Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances List

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has added 14 new medical conditions to its Compassionate Allowances List, an initiative that speeds up the disability benefits application process for Americans with serious medical conditions or illnesses.
With the new additions, the Compassionate Allowances List now contains 314 health medical conditions in total, the SSA said in an Aug. 11 statement.
The 14 conditions are Adenylosuccinate Lyase Deficiency-Neonatal Form and Type 1, Aicardi Syndrome, Baraitser-Winter Syndrome, Beare-Stevenson Cutis Gyrata Syndrome, Bohring-Opitz Syndrome, CASK-Related Gene Disorders, Hepatosplenic T-Cell Lymphoma, Lafora Disease, Malignant Migrating Partial Seizures of Infancy, OPHN1 Syndrome, Primary Cardiac Sarcoma, Primary Intracranial Malignant Melanoma, Uveal Melanoma-with Metastases, and Warburg Micro Syndrome…. 

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