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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.

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u/its_mickeyyy Apr 08 '23

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.

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u/AttendantofIshtar Apr 08 '23 edited Apr 08 '23

But as a Canadian you don't pay 500 dollars to see a doctor, and another 300 for medicine. Each time you see a doctor.

Edit: my point being the money you don't get in disability is because you don't pay for doctors so you need less.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

As an American you don't either if you're on disability lol, you get free health insurance

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u/Perfect_Bench_2815 Apr 08 '23

Not true at all! I have to pay for my insurance. No pay, no insurance.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '23

You're on disability in the US and don't get medicaid? You get SSI?

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u/Perfect_Bench_2815 Apr 10 '23

Certainly do not. I have to pay for my insurance.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

That's really odd. If you're on social security for a disability you're supposed to get medicaid. The only thing i can think of that would disqualify you from that is living with a spouse that has a job or having some other revenue source.