The Social Security Administration is obligated to provide benefits quickly to any applicant with a serious medical condition that meets the standards of a disability. Fifty individual medical conditions have been earmarked under The Compassionate Allowance initiative, which allows the Social Security Administration to target these conditions as immediately eligible for benefits. These individuals, which have these documented conditions, can be individuals of any age, and in the majority of cases, are actually children filing for benefits, which they would otherwise not receive under any other applicable federal program. Additionally, many individual states offer programs targeting the assurance of a decent standard of living for disabled children, which a social security disability attorney in your state can help you locate.