incapacity
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And most glaringly, while back in 2002 when Iain Duncan Smith visited Easterhouse, around a quarter of recipients of incapacity benefits were for mental or behavioural reasons; today, it's close to half.
From BBC
When clinicians blur the line between suffering and incapacity, accommodation loses its meaning, standards lose force, and those with genuine impairments are met with suspicion.
“Replacement of the Chairman may occur only following voluntary resignation or as a result of incapacity,” it says.
She suffered difficult pregnancies, physical illness and depression, often feeling exhausted to the point of incapacity.
An important caveat: delusions six years ago and intermittent bouts of paranoia do not automatically indicate legal incapacity.
From MarketWatch
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