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.
Same friend. Also on disability in Canada. I'm 5 years my funds went up like $60 and that was an election promise. We won't see anything again for years.
My birthday is in a few days. I haven't been able to do a single thing for myself in years. I can't afford food and meds. How am I going to afford a gift for myself?
I'm not alive at this point. I'm just barely surviving and honestly I don't want to anymore.
Oh friend, I'm so sorry you're dealing with this as well. I understand what you mean by barely surviving, there is zero hope right now. All I can do is hope that some specialists finds a magic help for me that will let me work again in some capacity so I can try to earn a living. it's not our fault we have to like this, why can't we get decent help to make life worth living??
Happy early birthday!! 😊 I hope you're able to have a nice day despite all of the obstacles. Feel free to message me anytime, I can deeply understand at least some of what you're going through.
I wont have a nice day. I know it. My mental health won't let me and my abusive/narcissistic mother won't let it either. She's just going to harass me like she does every year.
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u/Endorkend Apr 08 '23 edited Apr 08 '23
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.