Compassionate Allowances (CAL) are a way to quickly identify diseases and other medical conditions that, by definition, meet Social Security’s standards for disability benefits. These conditions primarily include certain cancers, adult brain disorders, and a number of rare disorders that affect children and adults.

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Compassionate Allowances (CAL) Conditions (300)

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Deletion Syndrome Acute Leukemia Adrenal Cancer with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent Adult Heart Transplant Wait List – Status Levels 14 Adult Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Adult Onset Huntington Disease Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome Alexander Disease (ALX) – Neonatal and Infantile Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome Alobar Holoprosencephaly Alpers Disease Alpha Mannosidosis – Types II and III ALS/Parkinsonism Dementia Complex Alstrom Syndrome Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – Adult Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer – Adult with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent Anaplastic Ependymoma Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Angelman Syndrome Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma Angiosarcoma Aortic Atresia Aplastic Anemia Astrocytoma – Grade III and IV Ataxia Telangiectasia Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor Au-Kline Syndrome Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome Batten Disease Beta Thalassemia Major Bilateral Anophthalmia Bilateral Optic Atrophy – Infantile Bilateral Retinoblastoma Bladder Cancer with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm Breast Cancer – with distant metastases or inoperable or recurrent CACH – Vanishing White Matter Disease – Congenital, Infantile, and Early Childhood Onset Forms Calciphylaxis Canavan Disease (CD) Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Site Cardiac Amyloidosis – AL Type Carey-Fineman-Ziter Syndrome Caudal Regression Syndrome – Types III and IV CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis Charlevoix-Saguenay Spastic Ataxia Child Heart Transplant Wait List – Status Levels 1A/1B Child Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Child Lymphoma Child Medulloblastoma Child Neuroblastoma – with distant metastases or recurrent Child T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Cholangiocarcinoma Chondrosarcoma – with multimodal therapy Choroid Plexus Carcinoma Chronic Idiopathic Intestinal Pseudo Obstruction Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) – Blast Phase CIC-rearranged Sarcoma Coffin-Lowry Syndrome Congenital Lymphedema Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy Congenital Zika Syndrome Cornelia de Lange Syndrome –Classic Form Corticobasal Degeneration Costello Syndrome Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) – Adult Cri du Chat Syndrome Degos Disease – Systematic DeSanctis Cacchione Syndrome Desmoplastic Mesothelioma Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumors Dravet Syndrome Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy –– Adult Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18) Eisenmenger Syndrome Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma Endomyocardial Fibrosis Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Cancer) Erdheim Chester Disease Esophageal Cancer Esthesioneuroblastoma Ewing Sarcoma Farber Disease (FD) – Infantile Fatal Familial Insomnia Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva Fibrolamellar Cancer Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma – metastatic or recurrent FOXG1 Syndrome Friedreich’s Ataxia (FRDA) Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Pick’s Disease, Type A – Adult Fryns Syndrome Fucosidosis – Type I Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy Fulminant Giant Cell Myocarditis Galactosialidosis – Early and Late Infantile Types Gallbladder Cancer Gaucher Disease (GD) – Type 2 Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease Giant Axonal Neuropathy Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Cancer) Glioma – Grade III and IV Glutaric Acidemia – Type II GM1 – Gangliodosis – Infantile & Juvenile Forms Harlequin Ichthyosis – Child Head and Neck Cancers – with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable Heart Transplant Graft Failure...for more search the link below.

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