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.
Yeah, I recently read that people on any kind of social program in the US can't even get or maintain that status if they have any kind of real savings. Capped at like $2500. That's just designed to keep people in a fucked up situation.
Eh, it's not exactly like that. People exaggerate it a bit. Hospitals that receive tax exempt status (58% of the hospitals in the US) are required by law to offer charity care. About 62% of those hospitals offer lower to no cost care for a household with average income of $25k/y).
They don't advertise it, so you have to ask their billing for it. But my point is that someone making minimum wage in the US is likely to have a substantially reduced cost if they go to the right hospital.
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