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A disabled former trucker has been seen carrying his mobility scooter up steps

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An incapacitated previous trucker has been seen conveying his mobility scooter up steps while asserting £1,340 a month in handouts.  Gwynfor Jones from Bournemouth claims that he is too sick to work and that he has endured six heart assaults, a minor stroke, a kidney blockage and has 'dodgy legs'.  Mr Jones, 50, told the Sun: 'I'm not physically fit for working and haven't been for quite a long time. I require the bike. I can stroll up three stages before I'm buggered.  'When I'm pulling this thing up, my legs go each and every time. I need to sit and hold up 30 minutes in addition to with it laying on my legs ' On the off chance that the DSS [Department of Work and Pensions] saw me pulling this up the stairs they would have my guts for straps.  I would lose everything, I get restless about it.  'In any case, in the event that I get excessively restless and discouraged it could bring on an angina attack.' 

Mother and daughter combined weigh 43 stone and receive £33,600 in benefits

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With a combined weight of a reported 43 stone, a mother and daughter receive an estimated £33,600 in benefits and are ‘fat and happy.’ Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter Amber, 25, do not work, use mobility scooters and live in modified homes in Kirkcaldy, Fife. The women’s diet involves regularly eating unhealthy foods such as ready meals, burgers, fish and chips and sweets. Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter, Amber, 25 (Picture: Medavia) Ms Manzur told the Sun: ‘I’d rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin. ‘I’ll never encourage her to diet as it made me so unhappy. ‘Amber has never stepped foot in the gym and never will.’ In addition to her scooter, Janice has a wheelchair accessible Fiat Qubo car worth approximately £15,000. Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum told MailOnline: ‘I think it’s a total exploitation of the benefits system, I’m at a loss for words. ‘There must be a