The Social Security Administration is expanding its Compassionate Allowances program, which is designed to provide decisions on disability claims within several days — instead of months or years — for people with a select group of diseases or conditions. The agency is adding 35 conditions to the program on Thursday, bringing the total to 200.

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Acute leukemia

Adrenal cancer—with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

Adult non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Adult-onset Huntington disease

Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome

Alexander disease (ALX)—neonatal and infantile

Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome

Alobar holoprosencephaly

Alpers disease

Alpha mannosidosis—type II and III

Alstrom syndrome

Alveolar soft part sarcoma

Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Anaplastic adrenal cancer—with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

Angelman syndrome

Aortic atresia

Aplastic anemia

Astrocytoma—grade III and IV

Ataxia telangiectasia

Batten disease

Beta thalassemia major

Bilateral optic atrophy—infantile

Bilateral tetinoblastoma

Bladder cancer—with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

Breast cancer—with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

Canavan disease (CD)

Carcinoma of unknown primary site

Caudal regression syndrome—types III and IV

Cerebro oculo facio skeletal (COFS) Syndrome

Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis

Child neuroblastoma—with distant metastases or recurrent

Child non-Hodgkin lymphoma—recurrent

Child T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma

Chondrosarcoma—with multimodal therapy

Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)—blast phase

Congenital lymphedema

Cornelia de Lange syndrome—classic Form

Corticobasal degeneration

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—adult

Cri du chat syndrome

Degos disease, systemic

DeSanctis cacchione syndrome

Dravet syndrome

Early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Edwards syndrome (Trisomy 18)

Eisenmenger syndrome

Endometrial stromal sarcoma

Endomyocardial fibrosis

Ependymoblastoma (child brain tumor)

Erdheim Chester disease

Esophageal cancer

Ewing sarcoma

Farber’s disease (FD)—infantile

Fatal familial insomnia

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma—metastatic or recurrent

Friedreichs ataxia (FRDA)

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Picks disease—type A—Adult

Fryns syndrome

Fucosidosis—type 1

Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy

Fulminant giant cell myocarditis

Galactosialidosis—early and late infantile types

Gallbladder cancer

Gaucher disease (GD)—type 2

Glioblastoma multiforme (adult brain tumor)

Glioma grade III and IV

Glutaric acidemia—type II

Head and neck cancers—with distant metastasis or inoperable or unresectable

Heart transplant graft failure

Heart transplant wait list, 1a/1b

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), familial type

Hepatoblastoma

Hepatopulmonary syndrome

Hepatorenal syndrome

Histiocytosis syndromes

Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome

Hydranencephaly

Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome

Hypophosphatasia perinatal (lethal) and infantile onset types

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome

I cell disease

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Infantile free sialic acid storage disease

Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD)

Infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC)

Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome

Junctional epidermolysis bullosa, lethal type

Juvenile-onset Huntington disease

Kidney cancer—inoperable or unresectable

Krabbe disease (KD)—infantile

Kufs disease type A and B

Large intestine cancer—with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

Late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) recipient

Leigh’s disease

Leiomyosarcoma

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (LNS)

Lewy body dementia

Lissencephaly

Liver cancer

Lowe syndrome

Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis—grade III

Malignant brain stem gliomas—childhood

Malignant gastrointestinal stromal tumor

Malignant germ cell tumor

Malignant melanoma—with metastases

Malignant multiple sclerosis

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL)

Maple syrup urine disease

Mastocytosis type IV

MECP 2 duplication syndrome

Medulloblastoma—with metastases

Menkes disease—classic or infantile-onset form

Merkel cell carcinoma—with metastases

Merosin deficient congenital muscular dystrophy

Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD)—late infantile

Mitral valve atresia

Mixed dementias

MPS I, formerly known as Hurler syndrome

MPS II, formerly known as Hunter syndrome

MPS III, formerly known as Sanfilippo syndrome

Mucosal malignant melanoma

Multicentric Castleman disease