The disability system is blocking people like Jaki from their benefits – literally | Frances Ryan

Those most in need are being refused benefits because their disability means they can’t physically get to their assessmentIf you want a symbol of Britain’s benefit system, Jaki would be it. The 36-year-old spent her 20s in Essex grafting – taking on any job to provide for her four children, even shelf-stacking for 60 hours a week. By 25, she started to get sick – the joint condition Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and the constant pain of fibromyalgia, on top of epilepsy – u