The Compassionate Allowance List (CAL)
Posted November 4, 2016 by Premier Disability Services, LLC® Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.Compassionate Allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate Allowances allow Social Security to target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly. Compassionate Allowances are not a separate program from the Social Security Disability Insurance or Supplemental Security Income programs.
CAL conditions are selected using information received at public outreach hearings, comments received from the Social Security and Disability Determination Services communities, counsel of medical and scientific experts, and research with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Also, SSA considers which conditions are most likely to meet the current definition of disability.
A list of CAL conditions: https://www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm
By: Joyce Trudeau of Premier Disability Services, LLC®
