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By <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/author/ae615867f5613a6f787360fa80738743cb9bb0bb/" title="Posts by Jim Borland, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Communications" class="author url fn" rel="author">Jim Borland, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Communications</a> </p>
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<p>In some cases, we’re able to expedite the application process through our Compassionate Allowances program. Social Security uses <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/compassionate-allowances-speed-help-to-people-with-severe-disabilities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Compassionate Allowances</a> to identify people whose medical condition is so severe that they obviously meet our disability standards. Under the Social Security Act, we consider you disabled if you can’t work due to a severe medical condition that is expected to last at least one year, or result in death.<span id="more-2938"></span></p>
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<p>Many of the claims in our Compassionate Allowances Program are approved based on medical confirmation of the diagnosis alone; for example, pancreatic cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and acute leukemia. Acting Commissioner Nancy A. Berryhill said it best: “Social Security is committed — now and in the future – to continue to identify and fast-track diseases that are certain or near-certain to be approved for disability benefits.”</p>
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<p>Today, almost 500,000 people with severe disabilities have been approved through this fast-track disability process, which has grown to include a total of 228 conditions. Recently, three new Compassionate Allowances conditions were added to the list: CACH — Vanishing White Matter Disease-Infantile and Childhood Onset Forms, Congenital Myotonic Dystrophy, and Kleefstra Syndrome.</p>
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<p>my husband is 56 years old has stage 4 Lung cancer was approved for SS but was then told there is a 5 month waiting period with no back pay before he could even get his first check. also no insurance for 2 years. what are we suppose to live on. He has worked hard all his life just to be told your approved but we cant help you for 5 months that is just plain wrong</p>
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<p>Im still waiting going on 9 months for disability payments and i have end stage kidney failure, im blind and have cardiac failure so im guessing that wasn’t enough to FasTrack my application because Im broke and can barely afford to pay people to drive me to Dialysis.</p>
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<p>Can you help us? My husband applied for disability on 11/6/17 on a Fast Track per the case worker as he has multiple myeloma. I cannot get a case worker to call us back with the status of his claim. He is not able to work and has had multiple surgeries and in and out of the hospital the last 3 months. Please advise.</p>
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<p>Hello Valerie, If your husband applied for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income benefits, he can log in or create a my Social Security account to <a href="https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3707/How-do-I-check-the-status-of-a-pending-application-for-benefits" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">check the status of his application online</a>.<br />
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<p>I was denied Disability in 2013 not because I did not grid out but after I was told I could remove the attorneys without it affecting the Judges decision, the Judge sent it back to be retyped because he “did not like the wording”. New attorney filed appeal submitting medical evidence proving I meet the listing for C.O.P.D. which the orig. attorneys did not submit. After waiting over a yr. I complained to then Sen. Sessions who requested a thorough investigation on my behalf. Appeals council attorney then closed the appeal, which was critical new med. evidence without cause. Now it is 2017 and Judge claims I only qualify for SSI effective Aug. 24, 2017 and Montgomery AL rep claims SSA website is wrong they do not issue emergency adv. payment for being homeless, needing medical treatment and medication. Why are Social Security representatives allowed to Discriminate in retaliation for complaints and still have salaries, and benefits while American Citizen who worked 38 yrs. is being denied what they worked for and qualify for? I have supporting documentation proving discrimination including new Judge ordering new Pulmonary Function test 120 days after hearing and not presenting it before rendering his decision and as of the end of Nov. Montgomery office claimed it still had not been filmed denying me my right to a copy. This needs to be stopped and I not only want my full backpay of $1570/mo from May, 2011 till present but punitive damages for these illegal actions by SSA personnel.</p>
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