...to wonder why they are always on holiday?

[MrsMuddlePluck]

Someone I know seems to be on holiday all the time - must be 5/6 times this year. They are seeing a psychiatrist / physiotherapist for all sorts of issues and can't work but is very fit and constantly abroad on holiday - some very activity based.

With all these issues that they have, why is it OK for them to be on holiday all the time? They don't work.

I don't want to be unsympathetic, but is there something I'm missing here?

They mustn't have got the memo about anyone seeing a psychiatrist being banned from going on holiday.

I don't think I ever said anything about people on benefits not being allowed to ever go on holiday and I fully appreciate that if you do have a disability it takes planning and patience if you aren't well to go on holiday at all.

What I am curious about is that it seems that they are only ever in this country to have a session with one specialist or another and then they're off on holiday again, for weeks at a time.

I'm really just being nosey, so I'll take the advice of earlier posters and just wind my neck in. I don't know what's up with them - only what they choose to divulge and that's up to them. I guess mumsnetters are never nosey as that would not be PC.

Maybe they don't live in the UK? Only in the UK for the appointments?

I have known of multiple people like this who are claiming DLA and the likes saying they can't walk more than 100M but they went to Ibiza for 3 weeks with 1000s of photos of them clubbing.

How can they afford to club in Ibiza for a week on DLA?

Or are you talking shit?

If the law says that XX person is entitled to YY benefits and that person is able to pay for holidays on that amount, what's wrong with that? That person isn't taking the money out of your pocket, the government is.

Quite.

And for all any of us know, the trips could be paid for by generous friends/family and she could be staying with friends/family. It could well work out cheaper than staying at home and paying your gas and electric bills, flights are so cheap these days.

Whatever, it really isn't anyone else's business how she spends her time.