A YOUNG mum battling terminal cancer has blasted benefits chiefs for asking her to prove she is unfit to work — when she may have just months to live.

Helpless Laura Law, 32, was shocked when she received a letter questioning her ability to hold down a job.

4 Laura Law, 32, has been battling cancer since 2013

The mum-of-one — whose cancer has spread from her lungs to her liver — can be in hospital up to four times a week for chemotherapy, blood checks and scans.

But last week she was requested to complete a questionnaire stating why she can’t work.

Blundering bosses at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made the request despite Laura being signed off as terminally ill by her doctor last year.

Worried Laura, from Glasgow, said it is “disgusting” that they are probing her again.

4 The mum looking healthier before her diagnosis. She has been suffering from terminal cancer since 2013

The mum — who fears she may not make it to Christmas if her latest round of treatment fails — said: “It’s ridiculous and disgusting.

“I get poked and prodded enough by my doctors, I don’t need the department of work and pensions poking and prodding me too.

“They’re making me feel like it’s my fault that my hospital treatment has kept me alive for more than six months.

“If I get better are they going to question me again? It’s not my fault the treatment is working. It feels like they’re waiting for me to die.”

4 Laura during happier times. She has suffered severe stress after DWP jobsworths insisted on probing her fitness to work

Laura receives employment and support allowance because she is too frail to work.

She relies on the fortnightly payments of £371 to pay her everyday bills.

And she is scared the payments might be pulled because her chemo treatments have kept her alive.

She said: “I honestly couldn’t believe it when I opened the letter. I thought this was all sorted last year.

“It’s making me wonder that if the NHS keeps me alive for another six months they’re going to be back attacking me.

“I understand they’ve got a protocol to follow but they’re taking the mickey. It feels like they’re accusing me of lying.

“When a doctor tells them that I’m terminally ill they should believe that.

“It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Holding back tears, she added: “I wish someone had a cure and I could go back to work but unfortunately that’s not an option.

“I would love nothing more than to get better and not have to rely on them for support but I have to.

“After chemotherapy I’m ill for a good few days and sometimes only feel better in time for my next chemo appointment.

“The fact that they’re suggesting I’m fit for work is preposterous.”

4 The Department for Work and Pensions admitted the letter was sent in error Credit: PA:Press Association

After The Sun stepped in, the DWP admitted the letter was a department bungle.

An administrative error meant the form submitted by her doctor, a DS1500, was not sent to the necessary benefits team.

And they apologised for the distress caused to the cancer mum.

A DWP spokesman said: “We’re committed to ensuring that all claimants affected by cancer are supported in a sensitive and appropriate way.

“We’ve apologised to Ms Law, and have assured her that her benefits will be paid in full.”

But Laura says she has heard NOTHING from the benefit chiefs.

She said: “I can’t believe they have said they’ve apologised. They have not spoken to me.

“So I’ve been worried sick for over a week for an office error.

“I can only thank The Sun for sorting it all out.

“I just hope the DWP are true to their word and it honestly is sorted.”

We told in August how the terminally ill mum was "scared to put the lights on" since ScottishPower hit her with £3,000 bill.

But after we intervened ScottishPower said they would wipe her outstanding bill as a “gesture of goodwill” and help arrange a payment plan.

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