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    Home - UK News - ‘It feels like contempt’: DWP asks 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k
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    ‘It feels like contempt’: DWP asks 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

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    ‘It feels like contempt’: DWP asks 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

    ‘It feels like contempt’: DWP asks 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

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    Cypriot-born Sia Kasparis, who speaks limited English, was not told about disability premium overpayment for several years

    Eighty-five-year-old Sia Kasparis was in her hospital bed in the living room of her small north london flat when there was a knock at the door.

    The grandmother-of-five has been bedbound for the last two years, the result of a collapsed vertebra and a range of other health problems, including vascular dementia, heart failure and kidney disease.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/27/it-feels-like-contempt-dwp-asks-85-year-old-dementia-patient-to-repay-13k

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    David Pike is an experienced news journalist with over 20 years experience as a UK News editor for WTX News and other news publications.

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