When I was on unemployment I asked them what the state expected me to do if I still didn’t have a job despite my best efforts, and the unemployed benefits ended. They just awkwardly laughed.
We live in the bad place because we let people be rich, and then let them make the rules.
I’m with you but with disability. I’m too disabled to work consistent full hours and sometimes I don’t have enough for rent, but I want to work and have a profession. However, the income and asset caps make it so that I literally have to stop working completely and get evicted to qualify (roughly $1600 a month, $2000 in total assets). So it seems like disability “benefits” are just a trap to become a punching bag for the kinda people that want to point and complain about “lazy welfare queens”.
One of the most depressing parts is that even with the draconian enrollment requirements, the welfare system you’re under is still critically underfunded and gives out all the money it has. It’s absolutely insane how welfare is structured, regardless of country (fucking hell, I have disabled brit friends and somehow it’s actually worse than the US. I mean, how the fuck do you manage that??)
When I was on unemployment I asked them what the state expected me to do if I still didn’t have a job despite my best efforts, and the unemployed benefits ended. They just awkwardly laughed.
We live in the bad place because we let people be rich, and then let them make the rules.
I’m with you but with disability. I’m too disabled to work consistent full hours and sometimes I don’t have enough for rent, but I want to work and have a profession. However, the income and asset caps make it so that I literally have to stop working completely and get evicted to qualify (roughly $1600 a month, $2000 in total assets). So it seems like disability “benefits” are just a trap to become a punching bag for the kinda people that want to point and complain about “lazy welfare queens”.
One of the most depressing parts is that even with the draconian enrollment requirements, the welfare system you’re under is still critically underfunded and gives out all the money it has. It’s absolutely insane how welfare is structured, regardless of country (fucking hell, I have disabled brit friends and somehow it’s actually worse than the US. I mean, how the fuck do you manage that??)
On the UK, where do you think your Protestant work ethic came from along with all its adjacent problems? Basically us and the Dutch.
I’m going to start to correct people when they say, “the system isn’t working” in cases like this. No, the system is working exactly as intended.