A couple describe the 'harrowing' experience trying to cope with lost income and rising costs.
Now that they are receiving PIP and other welfare payments, Stephen says they are "just about scraping by", but with petrol, food and energy prices rising, things are still tough financially.
"I find it unbelievable and incredibly infuriating that the government and the system currently in place is such that they would make cancer patients go through the same system as everyone else." But the level at which benefits will rise next month remains unchanged at 3.1% while inflation is likely to average 7.4% for the rest of the year.
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