Social Security expands disability benefits fast-track list with 14 medical conditions. Here’s who qualifies

“The Compassionate Allowances initiative cuts through red tape and allows us to deliver support to individuals who experience life-changing diagnoses and need help fast,” said Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano in the news release.

The newly added conditions include:

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