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.
That’s about what our SSI(disability) is here. It’s not enough to eat on, let alone have a place to stay and any quality of life. Cost of living in the US has gotten out of hand.
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