Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pensions: Pain — Written Question

Question

Claire Hazelgrove

Labour — Filton and Bradley Stoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of recognition and compensation of chronic pain as a distinct medical condition as part of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and War Pension Sche

Answer

Louise Sandher-Jones

The Department has assessed that both the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme (AFCS) and the War Pension Scheme provide for pain and suffering as part of a holistic assessment of service-attributable injury or illness. In most cases, chronic pain is not trea...

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