Benefit claim amputee told ‘wait and see if the leg gets better'

An amputee had her application for disability handouts knocked back — in case her leg grew back.

Stunned Beryl Prescott, 57, was told to wait three months and apply again in case her severed limb "got better".

Hard-working Beryl — a former nurse who says she has paid taxes all her life — applied for incapacity benefits after losing her right leg to gangrene.



But officials knocked her back three times because they couldn't be sure she was genuinely disabled.

Baffled Beryl enlisted the services of her local MP and eventually won £1,700 in back-payments.

She fumed: "Apparently, you have to wait three months after you come out of hospital before you can apply in case you get better. I'm not a doctor but I am pretty sure that wasn't going to happen - I don't have a magic grow bag."