HeartBrothers Foundation is Spreading the Word About Compassionate Allowances
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People diagnosed with heart failure face a challenging health journey—and the last thing they should have to worry about is finances. Many heart failure patients rely on Social Security disability benefits to help cover living expenses while they can’t work to support themselves and their families.
That’s why it’s so important for people with heart failure to know about Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances initiative. It helps patients get the financial support they need quickly.
The nonprofit HeartBrothers Foundation is spreading the word about Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances initiative. At HeartBrothers, we serve thousands of heart failure patients and their families with financial and emotional support, including accommodations at our HeartBrothers House.
At a recent HeartBrothers symposium, a Social Security representative spoke about Compassionate Allowances. This initiative allows Social Security to quickly identify severe medical conditions and diseases that obviously meet their strict standards for disability benefits. Social Security can then expedite the review process and make a final decision for these claims.
People with conditions on the Compassionate Allowances list can receive a decision on their claim in weeks rather than months. There are currently 254 conditions on the list – including Heart Transplant Wait List 1A/1B and Heart Transplant Graft Failure.
More than 700,000 people have had their claims fast-tracked and approved through the Compassionate Allowances initiative – including about 11,000 with cardiac-related claims. You can learn more about this initiative and all the conditions it covers by visiting Social Security’s Compassionate Allowances page.
There is no separate application for claims involving conditions on the Compassionate Allowances list. When you apply for disability benefits, be sure to correctly spell the name of your qualifying condition(s) so that Social Security can expedite your case. To learn more about Social Security’s disability programs, visit their website.
You can learn more about the HeartBrothers Foundation at heartbrothers.org. Please share this information with your friends and family – and post it on social media.
Our posting of this blog does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation of any non-Social Security organization, author, or webpages.
Editorial Note: An earlier version of this blog contained some statements about the Compassionate Allowances program that could be misconstrued. We have since made additional edits for clarification.
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Lisa
My stepdad has Vascular Dementia and Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, such as seeing people that’s no there. He can no longer walk and he is very obsessed with my mom, he accuses her of seeing another man or several men. They’ve been married for 37 years and the last thing that’s not on my mom’s mind is another man. My stepdad has had 2 triple bypass surgeries, surgery on each side of his neck, has had so many strokes, had a ATV wreck, broke his C2 & C3 in the back of his neck, broke every rib on one side and had a little bleeding on the brain 🧠. Was in ICU for a couple days, then a regular room a couple days, the day before he was to go to NHC, I called my mom and said he’s had a stroke, she said his speech is spurred sometimes in the morning, I told her I knew that but it was lunch and the preacher from there church was there and he wasn’t watching his language. My mom got to hospital mention it to his nurse RN and she said no he isn’t or had one. So finally the day of Transporting him, the hospital did a MRI said no stroke. He arrives at NHC and the doctor can straight in the room and check him over and ask my mom when did this stroke happen. My mom told him at the hospital where they told her he didn’t. He has been in a senior behavior health unit for 18 days. Kicked him out sent him home. Because he was their he tried to drag my mother over top of a sleigh bed and if my husband and I didn’t spend the night, my mom would be dead. Then less than 3 weeks later was sent to ER and they sent him to a Gactertic facility for 15 days and then sent him back home. Hospice comes in 2 maybe 4 times a week. Litterly no lie my mom is almost to the point she can’t take care of herself. Yes my stepdad has been in Congested heart failure and has a severe heart murmur. Because of what he tried to do to do to my mom the first time, the places are holding over his head. The man can not walk no longer and at the Gactertic place a nurse left them unattended so she could take someone else to the bathroom and my stepdad gets suckered punch in his left eye from another patient that was seeing things also, so my stepdad was fighting that man off, does he remember no but that goes on his record he got in a fight. At the facility they are not allowed 🚫 to be left unintended, which they were and it would a took one second to call another nurse to watch the patients while she had to take one to the restroom. So since all of this he can’t be put into a place but left at home so I can bury 2 members. This is not right. The insurance said they would pay for him to be put in a hospice place full time but they said no because of the behavior and he isn’t ready to transition over to God. Now I’m sorry but we are not promised another minute, day, week or year it’s when God is ready for us. So can the government please explain to me why it’s OK for my mother to kill herself all day and all night doing what she thinks is her wife duties are because a hospice place or Alzheimers or Dementia patients is not in their right mind. In this world today, tell me please who is in their right mind. Can someone please help before I have to bury my mother and stepdad together.
A.C.
Hi, Lisa. We are sorry to hear this. Your mother and step father may be eligible to receive social services from the state in which they live. These services include free meals, housekeeping help, transportation, or help with other problems. To get information about services in their area and find out if they qualify, they will need to contact their state or local social services or welfare office. We hope this helps.
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ruth
Too bad a compassionate allowance condition does NOT mean that the 24 month period to become entitled to get Medicare benefits (or pay for Medicare coverage) isn’t waived. So, unless you’re entitled to Medicaid in addition to SSDI benefits (because you’re poor) you may receive Social Security disability benefits but you won’t be entitled to Medicare benefits. So, unless you, through a spouse or partner or being a veteran (then only maybe), get affordable health care insurance or coverage, or just have alot of savings, you will end up either not getting the health care you need (because you can’t afford to pay for it) or you’ll end up filing for medical bankruptcy. Possibly having spent most of your savings.
The US system of providing health care needed to change yesterday, time for the US to join the rest of the ‘wealthy’ nations in creating a system of providing health care to all, paid for by taxes everyone pays, including private equity fund managers, etc. (and alot less on creating weapons of mass destruction).
jashwant
yes every one need should be provided health care.
because lack of medical help i have suffered my hole
life. I had a by pass sergeri and twice stent replacement sergery . I have a brithing problem since
child hood.I also resently diognise with diabitice
Gary D.
I have been retired and receiving SS since Feb 2017. In Aug 2019 I had a triple bypass. Does this entitle me to receive more and/or additional benefits because of my heart condition?
A.C.
Hi, Gary. Thanks for your question. We pay disability benefits to people under their full retirement age who are unable to work because of a medical condition that is expected to last one year or more or end in death. Once people reach full retirement age, we pay them their retirement benefits. If you are under your full retirement age, you can file for disability benefits. Also, keep in mind, we do not base your Social Security benefit amount on the severity of your disability. We base it on your average lifetime earnings before your disability began, (or those of certain family members) when those earnings are insured under Social Security. For more information and learn how to apply, please visit our Disability Benefits page. We hope this is helpful.
Jackline T.
I think that it is great what you are doing.
Paul M.
Compassionate allowances don’t make sense to me if SSA doesn’t waive the 5-month waiting period.
Mohammad A.
Hello Social Security Office,
I applied for disablity in the past tow months in December-2021 for my child who is disabled, as far as now i did not hear back form office, please help with us.
Thanks
A.C.
Hi, Mohammed. For your security, we do not have access to private information in this venue. We ask that members in our Blog community work with our offices with specific questions. You can call us at 1-800-772-1213, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., for assistance. You can also contact your local Social Security office. We hope this helps.
Margaret C.
Thanks for the information. I am 81 y/o will I be able to receive this or qualify for this program. I have congestive heart failure. I was diagnosed with CHF last year. I also have a heart defibrillator implant.
A.C.
Hi, Margaret. We are sorry to hear about your condition. Social Security pays disability benefits to people under their full retirement age who are unable to work because of a medical condition that is expected to last one year or more or end in death. Once people reach full retirement age, we pay them their retirement benefits. However, you may be eligible to receive social services from the state in which you live. These services include free meals, housekeeping help, transportation, or help with other problems. To get information about services in your area and find out if you qualify, you will need to contact your state or local social services or welfare office. We hope this helps.