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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

SS Complete List of Compassionate Allowances Conditions

Compassionate Allowances Initial List of Conditions
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Acute Leukemia
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Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
3
Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile
4
Alstrom Syndrome
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Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
8
Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV
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Ataxia Telangiectasia
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Batten Disease
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Bilateral Retinoblastoma
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Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
15
Canavan Disease (CD)
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Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome
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Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult
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Cri du Chat Syndrome
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Degos Disease, Systemic
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Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
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Edwards Syndrome (Trisomy 18)
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Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)
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Esophageal Cancer
25
Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile
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Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
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Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)
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Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult
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Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
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Gallbladder Cancer
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Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2
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Glioblastoma Multiforme (Adult Brain Tumor)
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Glutaric Acidemia Type II (Neonatal)
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Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
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Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
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Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)
38
Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)
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Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
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Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable
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Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile
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Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
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Leigh’s Disease
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Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)
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Liver Cancer
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Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)
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Maple Syrup Urine Disease
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Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
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Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile
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Mixed Dementias
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MPS I, formally known as Hurler Syndrome
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MPS II, formally known as Hunter Syndrome
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MPS III, formally known as Sanfilippo Syndrome
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Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
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Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
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Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A
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Niemann-Pick Disease-Type C
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Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II
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Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable
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Pancreatic Cancer
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Patau Syndrome (Trisomy 13)
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Peritoneal Mesothelioma
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Pleural Mesothelioma
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Pompe Disease - Infantile
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Primary Progressive Aphasia
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Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
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Rett (RTT) Syndrome
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Salivary Tumors
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Sandhoff Disease
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Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)
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Small Cell Lung Cancer
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Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1
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Spinocerebellar Ataxia
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Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
80
Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
81
Tay Sachs Disease - Infantile Type
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Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
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Thyroid Cancer
84
Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
85
Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent
86
Walker Warburg Syndrome
87
Wolman Disease
88
Zellweger Syndrome

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Social Security checks

Social Security Checks Retire | Bankrate.com
Social Security checks retire
By Jennie L. Phipps · Bankrate.com
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Posted: 4 pm ET

Beginning May 1, Social Security will require all new recipients to get their payments by either direct deposit to a bank account or via a debit card. Recipients who are already receiving Social Security have until May 1, 2013, to convert to one of these electronic delivery systems.