Can someone explain to me how this is even possible?
My dm has undergone cancer treatment twice, and this has left her with osteoporosis. Two of her vertebrae have crumbled completely, and the rest aren't looking great.
She can't stand for any length of time, can't iron, do her housework or go shopping, nor can she lift more than a couple of pounds.
We recently applied for dla (or pip, as it is now called) so she could pay someone to do her housework/ironing and have been told she doesn't meet the criteria, so I am travelling 60 odd miles twice a week to do it for her (and blow dry her hair, she can't even do that without intense pain)
She's got medical evidence for all of this, but the assessment is that she isn't in enough pain to qualify.
Yet I still hear people bashing people who do receive dla on a regular basis, particularly for 'having a bad back'. How the fuck do they think it's an easy thing to claim fraudulently, and how as a country have we become so unsympathetic?
AIBU?
False claims for DLA?
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