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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by guerrilla on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:49PM (#31454598)
> It's one thing to give someone benefits to support their person, it's another to give them benefits to support their person AND their existing savings. It's pretty natural to be less generous to someone who already has the money to pay for what they're asking you to pay for.

Nope. This makes no sense. You're replacing their income because they can't generating any. That's it. You have no business in their rest of their life at all. Your job is to determine whether they can generate income or not and give them money if they can't, nothing else.

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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by tablespoon on Saturday May 21, 2022 @03:03PM (#31460786)
> Nope. This makes no sense. You're replacing their income because they can't generating any. That's it.

So, in your view, a disabled multi-millionaire should be able to collect government disability payments?

You may think this is a problem narrowly scoped to income, and that's fine. However that doesn't mean that's the only way to look at it, and that anyone who looks at it differently is doing it wrong.

> You have no business in their rest of their life at all. Your job is to determine whether they can generate income or not and give them money if they can't, nothing else.

Sorry, no. That's not how it works.

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