I was about to say - it's more likely that the woman is suffering schizophrenia and is getting her disability benefits for that reason but is under the delusion its her EMF condition that is being paid for. Then again the source is the BBC not the Daily Mail, so maybe it's true?
Bingo.
My mother suffers from EMF sensitivity. The last time I had any contact with her, it's because I had to handle some of her affairs while she was involuntarily committed for two weeks. A result of calling the police repeatedly for two hours straight, in an attempt to get them to deal with her landlord; who she believed was sneaking into her apartment while she slept, and peeing on the kitchen floor. I actually did find pee on the kitchen floor, but it was easily identifiable by smell as being from her male cat. At the same time, she was also suing the university she was attending, because it was infested with spiders too small to see, that were biting her and causing a skin rash. Her other ailments, including EMF sensitivity, were a result of being cursed by witches from a church she used to attend that was actually a coven. I could go on, but you get the idea.
Perhaps there is such a thing as EMF sensitivity, perhaps not. In families where genetics causes males to see only two primary colors (color blindness), females sometimes have the ability to see four (tetrachromatism, which adds true yellow receptors to the cornea). There are people with skin so stretchy they can pull their neck skin up over their face. There's a girl in Russia who is abnormally strong for her build, and has somewhat translucent skin. The true extent to which genetics makes us different isn't really known.
But the thing about EMF sensitivity is, I haven't encountered one person claiming to have it, that has any semblance of sanity.
And this Marine Richard is no exception. A document she wrote:
http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Marine_Richard_Sous_l_ondee_2012.pdfThere's a whole calliope of crazy there. Including many easily disputable things. Just to pick out one, she claims to be able to reliably feel when a cell phone is about to ring, 10-15 seconds before it happens. Anyone who has left a cell phone next to an amplified speaker knows that there is indeed a burst of RF transmissions before it rings, but no more than 1-3 seconds before.
I have no problem with Marine being on disability for schizophrenia, or even unspecified ailments. But I sincerely hope the courts aren't opening the doors to allowing the crazies to make their own diagnoses.