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answer › question first answered	2016-09-12T16:31:21.663Z
answer › date of answer	2016-09-12
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
max answer › question first answered	2018-11-14T17:26:29.297Z

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05/09/2016

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Department for Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Work and Pensions

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Fibromyalgia: Social Security Benefits

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pref label	House of Lords

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To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether applicants suffering from Fibromyalgia are refused benefits because the condition is not recognised as sufficiently serious to cause disability.

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Lord Empey

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HL1545

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is ministerial correction

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12/09/2016

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<p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) recognises Fibromyalgia as a real and potentially significantly disabling condition. Where a clinical diagnosis of Fibromyalgia has been made full account will be taken of its functional effects when determining benefit entitlement.</p>

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Lord Freud

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12/09/2016 16:31:21

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label	Biography information for Lord Freud

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label	Biography information for Lord Empey