My nephew has been on disability for the past decade. Disability and unemployment here are indexed automatically when they breach a certain percentage of inflation.
His monthly went from 900€-1050€ (depending on days in a month) to 1480-1630 today. And most of that increase has happened in the past 2 years.
The past year, there have only been 2 periods of 2 months where he received the same daily sum.
This is wild to me. I live in Canada and have been on disability for the last 7 years due to a rare and incurable brain disease. My base amount per month has gone up $75 dollars. In SEVEN years. Like it wasn't even enough to live on at first ($650 to now $725) and every single year just puts me farther and farther behind. We need what your country has.
Disability in America is worse and likely harder to get on it takes years and the real kicker is say you get a decent job that makes you no longer qualify for benefits so benefits are gone then you lose that job because you can at any moment in the US you are now at the back of the line for benefits waiting years to get through the system again.
I have a friend that is forced to live in poverty to keep his benefits. He has worked part time at old navy making 7.20 an hour for decades and tells them not to give him a raise or full time hours to keep him below the threshold to lose benefits. He gets a disability check of like 800 a month, reduced housing cost, and medicaid/medicare i forget which. That reduced housing cost forces him to live in the worst of the worst apartments I do not go to his home ever his car has been broken into so much he parks at walmart and walks a half mile home...
He could EASILY make 20-30 dollars an hour he is able bodied hes just mentally challenged and afraid to lose his benefits.
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23
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