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Tom.
That is sound advice and people should take note of what you say.
For me, I have been a carer for many years, being a carer for my mother and father before my wife, so I know the pitfalls that can be so demoralizing to genuine people falling into the benefits trap.
We are now waiting for a visit from a doctor, who has never met my wife nor been allowed to read her notes to declare she is fit to work. I expect we will lose our benefits and have to appeal, again, which will take about a year but we will win it because my wife is a genuine disabled person.
The problem is, that because I look after her and the house, she is able to get around and in public, she does not look disabled.
The truth is that no-one sees what goes on behind the scenes by them and their carers, to help their loved ones, live as much like abled people as they can.
The last time this happened to us, the offending doctor asked my wife to lift her legs up, knowing my wife would do her best to lift her legs up, no matter what pain and consequences would follow, I told the doctor that she could not lift her legs up, he asked me to get a towel from the bathroom and when I left the bedroom, he proceeded to lift my wife's legs up for her. This undid all the good work I had done getting her to a good stage of ability and left her bedridden for the next 6 weeks and took me another 6 months to get her back to her original stage. Oh, and he declared her not disabled and we had our benefits removed.
If this happens again I will have the doctor charged with assault.