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"Visit our office at the top of three flights of stairs to be assessed for disability funds"
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was apparently doing this a few years ago. They would book people in for appointments in an upstairs room and put out of order signs on the lifts. Anyone who made it to the room was automatically denied their benefits.
I say apparently because I didn't personally know anyone who went through that one. The office that I had to visit had a car park, but no spaces near the door. I was dropped off by the door while my wife parked the car, but another person drove themselves and walked from the car. Their claim was denied, based on the distance they walked.
It's too true. Yet the person who has a spouse (to help them get to the appointment) can lose benefits because of their spouse's income.
That's the position that I'm in. I get PIP, the non means tested disability allowance, but because my wife works, we're not entitled to anything else.
I can't really complain, as we're doing better than a lot of people, but it doesn't exactly feel great knowing that we don't qualify for any other help.