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Uniocular eye condition

Having sight in only one eye.
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Universal Credit benefits/concessions

Universal Credit is replacing the following benefits and tax credits: Child Tax Credit; Housing Benefit; Income Support; income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA); income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA); Working Tax Credit.
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Usher syndrome eye condition

Form of deafblindness where people are born deaf or hard of hearing and start to lose their sight (with retinitis pigmentosa) in the school years.
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Uveitis eye condition

An inflamation of the middle layer of the eye (the uvea)
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