If you’re entitled to some stately benefit, and the same state administers the rules as well as the payouts, chances are that you’ll miss out. There’s also a very real chance that the next guy (you know him, he’s got very pointed elbows, and know his way around government agencies), who’s less obviously entitled than yourself, gets all his benefits, and more.
This is true for social security disability payments in this country, and it seems, also in the US. Here, David has to fight Goliath on his own, which David rarely does. He can’t afford a lawyer. In the US, there are instances that can help. Allsup is one such agency, and according to themselves, their success rate is phaenomenal.
I know people here who fall between the rules, and have to go to the social services for what they (and social workers) percieve as handouts, although they’re very really unable to provide for themselves. A service to counteract this is necessary in this country too. Even though you have to pay, there is a maximum fee, and it comes off the sum awarded. Which is a much better deal than using a lawyer who charges you continuously.
I believe in fending for yourself, but I also believe that if you’re unable to do so, you should have the right to a worthy existence. Without having to beg for it for years, while not being well in the first place.
Stumble it!
