It's odd that whilst many people with serious problems have great difficulty in getting and keeping benefits for their disabilty, some seem to have no problem at all even though they could so easily be checked up on.

How simple would it be to ensure that a person claiming to be badly agrophobic and bedridden was actually at home?

There are couples who live together but claim benefit as single people which includes housing benefit for the house that is not lived in, it would be easy to ask those on such benefit to prove the property was being used by the ocassional production of an energy bill but to my knowledge that is never done.