Commissioner Michael Astrue wrote a short article discussing fast tracking cases involving schizophrenia and other diseases:
Our Compassionate Allowances and Quick Disability Determinations processes are making a real difference by ensuring that Americans with devastating disabilities quickly receive the benefits they need. This fiscal year, we expect to fast-track about 150,000 cases and we plan to add more diseases and impairments to these expedited processes in the coming months.
For claimants with certain kinds of impairments, fast tracking will mean favorable decisions in very short time frames.
