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Disability Benefits for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
Plus additional resources on getting disability benefits for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
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What Social Security lists for Immune System Disorders (+ Autoimmune)
Immune System Disorders that may qualify for disability benefits are evaluated under Section 14.00 of Social Security’s Listing of Impairments – Adult Listings.
SSA organizes Immune System Disorders into 3 categories: Autoimmune disorders; Immune deficiency disorders, and HIV infection.
Disorders evaluated for disability benefits under this section include:
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (Lupus)
- Systemic vasculitis
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- CREST syndrome (calcinosis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia)
- Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis
- Diffuse scleroderma
- Localized scleroderma (linear scleroderma and morphea)
- Disseminated morphea
- Shulman’s disease (diffuse fasciitis with eosinophilia)
- Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
- Polymyositis
- Dermatomyositis
- Inflammatory arthritis associated with:
- Reiter’s syndrome
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Whipple’s disease
- Behçet’s disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sjögren’s syndrome
- Crystal deposition disorders (gout and pseudogout)
- Lyme disease
- Primary Immune deficiency disorders (congenital) such as:
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- thymic hypoplasia (DiGeorge syndrome)
- severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
- chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)
- C1 esterase inhibitor deficiency
- Medication-induced immune suppression
- HIV infection, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and disorders associated with HIV infection:
- Multicentric Castleman disease (MCD)
- Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL)
- Primary effusion lymphoma (PEL)
- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
- Pulmonary Kaposi sarcoma (KS)