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Same in the UK. The application process for disability benefits is many pages, and impossible for most people without expert help.

The 'undeserving poor' insanity haunts the ruling class like a decomposing vampire scarecrow.

It's kind of easy to abuse too. I think if you want benefits for life you just claim clinical depression which can't really be disproved. Welfare has exceeded income tax for a while https://fullfact.org/economy/income-tax-versus-welfare-spend... I think we may be a test case for UBI when everyone stops working.

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