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Is there a list of conditions for "Compassionate Allowances" or TERI Cases which can trigger my case as one of Dire Need?

Yes.

Compassionate Allowances


List of Conditions

1.  

Acute Leukemia

2.  

Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

3.  

Alexander Disease (ALX) - Neonatal and Infantile

4.  

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

5.  

Anaplastic Adrenal Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

6.  

Astrocytoma - Grade III and IV

7.  

Bladder Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

8.  

Bone Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

9.  

Breast Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

10.  

Canavan Disease (CD)

11.  

Cerebro Oculo Facio Skeletal (COFS) Syndrome

12.  

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) - Blast Phase

13.  

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) - Adult

14.  

Ependymoblastoma (Child Brain Tumor)

15.  

Esophageal Cancer

16.  

Farber's Disease (FD) - Infantile

17.  

Friedreichs Ataxia (FRDA)

18.  

Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Picks Disease -Type A - Adult

19.  

Gallbladder Cancer

20.  

Gaucher Disease (GD) - Type 2

21.  

Glioblastoma Multiforme (Brain Tumor)

22.  

Head and Neck Cancers - with distant metastasis or inoperable or uresectable

23.  

Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy (INAD)

24.  

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC)

25.  

Kidney Cancer - inoperable or unresectable

26.  

Krabbe Disease (KD) - Infantile

27.  

Large Intestine Cancer - with distant metastasis or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

28.  

Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome (LNS)

29.  

Liver Cancer

30.  

Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL)

31.  

Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) - Late Infantile

32.  

Niemann-Pick Disease (NPD) - Type A

33.  

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer - with metastases to or beyond the hilar nodes or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

34.  

Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency

35.  

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) - Type II

36.  

Ovarian Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable or unresectable

37.  

Pancreatic Cancer

38.  

Peritoneal Mesothelioma

39.  

Pleural Mesothelioma

40.  

Pompe Disease - Infantile

41.  

Rett (RTT) Syndrome

42.  

Salivary Tumors

43.  

Sandhoff Disease

44.  

Small Cell Cancer (of the Large Intestine, Ovary, Prostate, or Uterus)

45.  

Small Cell Lung Cancer

46.  

Small Intestine Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

47.  

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) - Types 0 And 1

48.  

Stomach Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

49.  

Thyroid Cancer

50.  

Ureter Cancer - with distant metastases or inoperable, unresectable or recurrent

You may also find these conditions listed at http://www.ssa.gov/compassionateallowances/conditions.htm .