Letter: Fakes are playing benefits system

Letter: There are people who are in receipt of incapacity benefit, who claim to have severe mental illness when in reality they do not.

They are fakes, who know how to exploit the system and have without any shame or guilt done so for years with no intention whatsoever of doing an honest day's work or at the very least some form of charity work.

I know someone who was due to have a hip operation at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen, who at the last minute declined to have the op. The reason being he knew after he would get better again and walk again normally. He would then lose his disability living allowance.

So the NHS time waster thought, hang on a minute, if I don't have the op I can continue to receive my allowance. He has not worked for years and years. He has a free England bus pass and still moans about public transport.

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