I was made to pay £10 to prove I didn’t have a hand

The questioning felt strange (Picture: Emily Tisshaw)I stared at my computer screen in confusion at two little words: ‘Supporting evidence’. It was 2017 and I was almost done filling out the paperwork for my first Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment when I hit this roadblock. Did ‘supporting evidence’ of my disability mean I had to take a photo of it? Or would they already know about it from the years my mum claimed Disability Living Allowance (DLA)