"Decisions are made by others" as Ian Mather said - and all too often these "others" overrule and ignore what the doctors have said. And in some forty per cent of the appeals made by those claimants, the decisions made depriving them of benefits are overthrown.
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One good thing about the Mudcat at one time was that, when we got in an argument we could remind ourselves that we share with the people we are arguing an interest in folk music, which brought us here in the first place. You'd meet the people you'd been sparring with up in the music section.

Sadly that isn't true all too often these days. And there are some pretty unpleasant specimens thrown up...