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Tag: Compassionate Allowances

Disability Law

New Compassionate Allowance Categories Announced

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Editor

On August 21,  Social Security, announced five new Compassionate Allowance conditions: fibrolamellar cancer, megacystis microcolon, intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome, megalencephaly capillary malformation syndrome, superficial siderosis of…

Disability News

Benefit Decisions Delays Can Mean Death Before Payment

Posted on March 27, 2017March 20, 2017 by Editor

CBS in Chicago weighs in on the practical results of all the delays in benefit decisions – even for the terminally ill, whose cases are…

Disability Law

Compassionate Allowance Conditions Expanded

Posted on April 20, 2012May 16, 2012 by Editor

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today announced 52 new Compassionate Allowances conditions, primarily involving neurological disorders, cancers and rare diseases. The Compassionate Allowances…

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Compassionate Allowance Program has a Big Heart

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Editor

Today’s Washington Post reports: Diane Braunstein’s large smile and warm laugh can be infectious. She speaks calmly as she sits in a high-backed, dark wooden…

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Sometimes: Be Your Own Advocate

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Editor

The new list of compassionate allowances for Social Security benefits includes Alzheimer’s disease, rather unexpectedly. Although the national associations had been lobbying for this for…

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Compassionate Allowance Initiative Effective

Posted on July 30, 2009July 30, 2009 by Editor

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, today hosted the agency’s fourth public hearing on Compassionate Allowances. Commissioner Astrue was joined by Marie A. Bernard,…

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