New Compassionate Allowance List

      A message from Social Security:

Social Security Adds 14 Compassionate Allowance Conditions

Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 

 Dear Colleague, 

 Today, Commissioner Frank J. Bisignano announced the addition of 14 conditions to Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances list. The Compassionate Allowances initiative is designed to cut through red tape and allows us to quickly identify claims where the applicant’s medical condition or disease clearly meets our definition of disability. Given the severity of these conditions, claims are often approved based on medical confirmation of the diagnosis alone, helping individuals experiencing life-changing diagnoses receive the support they need as fast as possible. 

 The newly added Compassionate Allowances 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 (MMPSI) 
• OPHN1 Syndrome 
• Primary Cardiac Sarcoma 
• Primary Intracranial Malignant Melanoma 
• Uveal Melanoma – with Metastases 
• Warburg Micro Syndrome 

I encourage you to share this important update with your members, colleagues, affiliates, and other interested parties. Sincerely, Nick Perrine Chief Communications Officer

     Think most readers of this blog realize that the Compassionate Allowance list is nearly meaningless. The list is comprised of very rare disorders so it affects few. Virtually all of them would have been approved quickly even without the Compassionate Allowance list. The list does allow for various Administrations to claim they’re doing something for disabled people even though they aren’t.