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There are the clever ones who milk the system and always will, but they are very clever.
The ones losing out are the genuine ones who tell the truth and in particular, those with Depression etc who are not up to fighting the system.
There is something basically wrong with a system designed to weed out the con artists but instead penalises those most in need.
Exactly SF .....I keep hoping one day it will change but I dont think it will ...it seems quite easy to me to spot the ones who are "playing the system" but why cant the others see it...Its staring them in the face!
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I appreciate that symptoms such as fibromyalgia, Raynaud's phenomenon, chronic anxiety, migraines and depression are maybe not symptoms that can actually be seen as being disabled but surely that doesn't give anyone the right to judge whether what they are suffering from is not genuine disability? Only a Doctor can do that and they obviously have"