ME Association: "MEA responds to Version 10 of the DWP medical guidance"

If you suffer from moderate or severe ME/CFS and have tried to apply for Disability Living Allowance, then chances are that you've probably had to go to appeal in order to obtain DLA. This is what the ME Association has been fighting to change.

In a recent release, the ME Association report their recent findings about the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)'s latest version of the medical guidelines.  The MEA's aim - for the guideliness to be:

(…) "free from psychiatric bias and will properly reflect the spectrum of ill health and disability that is experienced by people with moderate or severe ME/CFS"

– ME Association, MEA responds to Version 10 of the DWP medical guidance, 11 July 2007

Unfortunately, it seems that there is still much more work to be done:

"We fear that this new guidance is going to make the current unacceptable situation even worse for people with moderate or severe ME/CFS..
 
We cannot therefore endorse the new medical guidance."

– ME Association, MEA responds to Version 10 of the DWP medical guidance, 11 July 2007

Thank you to the ME Association for their perseverance in fighting for moderate-to-severely affected sufferers to give them the fair entitlement to the DLA they deserve.  Keep up the good work…