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Families ‘hung out to dry’ by new restrictions on disability support (www.thepress.co.nz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, our government's "crack down on beneficiaries" also includes disabled children.

Apparently disabled people are, what? Leaches sucking the life out of the economy or something?

How long until disabled people have to "work" for their support? Or perhaps we should just put them on a train and take them to a "work camp"?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

chucking a few scraps at the parents to keep them from totally giving up is a tiny fraction of the cost of the alternatives.

Especially when you consider a great many of them are parents looking after high-needs adult children or spouses looking after adults. I know some of these and it's really a mammoth task. The disability care we have now is much cheaper than institutionalising those being cared for.

This is what scares me about this govt, it's not just being cold "psycho accountant" it's more like a psycho who failed accounting and just wants to break things and hurt people.