Social Security Administration Fast Track Disability Review
At The Law Offices of Nancy L. Cavey, we have represented Social Security Disability Claimants who suffer from rare diseases or cancers. Unfortunately, until recently, the Social Security administration did not have a fast-track system to review these cases. We would have to wait until both the initial claims application and request for reconsideration were denied before we could put together our disability packet, hand deliver it to the Social Security administration and begin calling our local Congressman in an effort to get a quick decision.
The Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Michael J. Astrue, has announced a Compassionate Allowance Program, which will provide for a fast track disability review of 6 to 8 days. There are 250,000 people annually who will have their cases fast tracked.
The diseases and cancer’s covered are:
1. Acute leukemia
2. Adrenal cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
3. Alexander Disease.
4. Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
5. Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer
6. Astosytoma (Grade 3 and 4)
7. Bladder cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
8. Bone Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
9. Breast Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
10. Canavan Disease
11. Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal Syndrome
12. Chronic mylogenous Leukemia
13. Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease (adult)
14. Ependymobtastoma
15. Esophageal cancer.
16. Farber’s disease — Infantile
17. Friedreicihs Ataxia
18. Frontotemporal Dementia
19. Gallbladder cancer
20. Gaucher disease — Type Two
21. Brain Tumor
22. Head and Neck Cancers with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
23. Infantile Neuroaxonial dystrophy
24. Inflammatory breast cancer
25. Kidney cancer — inoperable or unresectable
26. Krabbe Diseases — infantile
27. Large Intestine Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
28. Lesch-Nylhan Syndrome
29. Liver Cancer
30. Mantle Cell Lymphoma
31. Metachromatic Leukodystrophy – Late Infantile
32. Niemann-Pick Disease — Type A
33. Non-Small Sell Long Cancer with metastases to or beyond the Hiler nodes or inoperable, unresectable or current
34. Orninthine Transcarbamylase deficiency
35. Osteogensis Imperfecta
36. Ovarian cancer with distinct metatses
37. Pancreatic cancer.
38. Peritoneal Mesotheliioma
39. Pleural Mesothelioma
40. Pompe Disease – Infantile
41. Rett Syndrome
42. Salivary Tumors
43. Sandhoff Disease
44. Small Cell Cancer of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate or Uterus
45. Small Cell Long Cancer
46. Small Intestine Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
47. Spinal Muscular Atrophy
48. Stomach Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
49. Thyroid Cancer
50. Ureter Cancer with distant metastasis or in operable, unresectable, or recurrent
If you or a family member suffer from any of these diseases and need assistance with a Social Security Disability Claim, please contact The Law Offices of Nancy L. Cavey by calling 727-894-3188.