Blind woman denied benefits

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Blind woman denied benefits because she attended DWP interview with help of mother

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Charlotte Easton , 40 , is blind and has a hearing impairment and hydrocephalus.

She was assessed for a Personal Independence Payment in a phone call and was accepted and given the decision in a printed letter that her mother had to read to her.

Sense, a charity for disabled people, conducted a survey of 1,001 people with complex disabilities.

More than half said they felt humiliated by going through the benefits process.

Under Rishi Sunak , the government consulted on changes to PIP that would mean the cash benefit was replaced with a voucher scheme or one -off grants.

Campaigners are nervous about what that means.

The DWP said it was unable to comment on Easton ’s case since it had not been given enough details to investigate.

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