Recognize Fibromyalgia as a disability and create funding for research and study.

Fibromyalgia is a disability and it needs to be recognized as one. "Social Security doesn't have a disability listing for the condition known as fibromyalgia (Social Security's disability listings provide the approval criteria for a number of different impairments, ranging from amputations to seizure disorder), but the Social Security Administration (SSA) recently published a ruling giving guidance to disability claims examiners and administrative law judges (ALJs) on how to assess fibromyalgia cases. This ruling should help reduce the number of fibromyalgia claimants who are denied at the initial application stage but file an appeal and eventually win disability benefits. Even so, many FM patients will continue to be denied benefits.