Compassionate Allowance Hearings Continue
November 16, 2009
Author: Catherine M. Callery (Kate)| Louise M. Tarantino
SSA will be holding the fifth in a series of Compassionate Allowance public hearings, this one “to obtain your views about the advisability and possible methods of identifying and implementing compassionate allowances for young adults with Schizophrenia.” 74 Fed. Reg. 56140 (October 30, 2009).
This hearing will be held on November 18, 2009, in San Francisco, CA. While the public is welcome to attend the hearing, only invited witnesses will present testimony. The proceedings will be telecast live via Webcast beginning at 9 a.m. (PST). You may access the Webcast line for the hearing at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances/.
Previous hearings, held in December 2007, April 2008, November 2008, and July 2009, concerned rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain injury and stroke, early-onset Alzheimer's and related dementias, respectively.
The Compassionate Allowances initiative aims at considering ways to quickly identify diseases and other serious medical conditions that obviously meet the definition of disability under the Social Security Act (Act) and can be identified with minimal objective medical information.
SSA states it plans to conduct additional hearings on other conditions as time goes on.
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