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When are you classed as disabled?
Sharonamey
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When are you classed as disabled?
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I suppose the answer is, when your illness or disability seriously impacts enough on your life and restricts your day to day routine, inside and outside the home.
If you're wondering about qualifying for disability benefits and entitlements, there's a whole section on the forums about it.
You could try posting on there? I'm sorry I can't be more help. It's such a small simple question, but there's no easy answer, as far as I know anyway.
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i think that is an interesting question: ‘when are you classed as disabled?’
Sometmies you are asked a similar question on Jon application or DWP forms: Do you consider yourself disabled?
Perhaps there is two types of disabled: the registered disabled and the unregistered disabled. Tobe registered disabled implies the government thinks or has criteria your condition is severe enough to stop you doing or need help or aids to do everyday stuff.
To be unregistered red must mean either your disabilities are not severe enough for the government to register them or maybe some people do not think they are worth registering.
yep definitely provokes discussion