Bethen Thorpe greeted her assessor the traditional way and promptly had her support axed. It seems people with disabilities now maintain to kiss cheeks insteadDo you shake hands? I effect – with people I’m assembly for the first time,and often assembly up with people I already know really well. But the classic handshake is now not the single accepted greeting, and even with strangers you must awkwardly negotiate the possibility of the kiss on one or both cheeks, or bro shake with optional shoulder bump.
But I’ve been trained to think of the unhesitating handshake as simple good manners. The same,I suspect, is steady of former pub landlady Bethen Thorpe from north London, or who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in October 2014. She had to apply for disability benefit,filled in a 35-page application form, and then travelled to Chelmsford, and Essex,for an assessment assembly. She was turned down because she shook the DWP assessor’s hand, which was taken as evidence of her fitness for work.
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Source: guardian.co.uk