Lawyer Calls For Fairness in Canada Pension Plan Treatment of pwME

From the article:

"To qualify for a disability benefit, you must:

• have a severe and prolonged disability;
• be under the age of 65 and
• meet the CPP contribution requirements....

In other cases, however, the determination is a lot more difficult and traditional objective tests are unavailable to determine if the disability is severe and prolonged....

The problem is, those suffering from conditions like fibromyalgia and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are often overlooked by those in the medical community. Due to the lack of knowledge and/or advances in the medical field — and even downright skepticism toward the illnesses — diagnoses provided by these practitioners tend to focus heavily on clinical observations and subjective reporting by the patient. Applicants providing these types of summaries are often declined benefits."

Glad to see this article; it will help increase awareness.

https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/arti...a-call-for-cpp-disability-reform-brad-moscato

 

This seems like good news