First of all apologies for the Daily Fail link:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2833525/Round-GOLF-caught-benefits-cheat-swindled-10-000-claiming-walk-10-yards.html
As a disabled person with a fluctuating condition the prosecution of this man and others like him really worries me.
The process for claiming disability payments such as PIP is constructed in such a way that you have to answer very narrow yes/no style questions to be entitled to any money. I bet if this man had been allowed to give an open and rounded description of his disability and how it effects his life he wouldn't have fallen foul of the system.
I think anyone who has a fluctuating condition could in theory be prosecuted for fraud. After all the bar for claiming is that your condition has a significant effect on your life for 50% of the time or more.
Medical practitioners have ratified the fact he has serious medical issues.
So AIBU to be horrified that if you are 'caught' on a good day, propped up with pain killers and for which you may take several days recovery you are a criminal?
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TheDailyFail · 13/11/2014 22:55
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