Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries?
Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In the US, there is no specific classification for the visually impaired. You are either legally blind or you are not.To qualify as legally blind your best corrected vision can't be better than 20/200, and your visual field of view can't be wider than 20 degrees.Before I was declared legally blind, my vision was 20/60 and my field of view was normal. Not good enough to get a driver's license, but good enough to ride a bike.Not being able to drive is a real handicap because most employers equate no driver's license to being unreliable, even though doing so is illegal. So I never brought up my lack of a driver's license. Most of my employers either never found out I didn't have one, or they found out after I'd been working for them for a while.Until you are legally blind, there is no assistance from the government for you for a visual handicap. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268577#p268577 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Traditional taxi drivers are also getting a little worried because they paid all that money to become taxi drivers, and now they are getting less customers than Uber drivers. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268480#p268480 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In Australia, the number of Uber vehicles is rapidly increasing. The government for the state in which I reside is getting a little worried because they got some of their money from the very high taxi licenses that had to be obtained for people to be legally allowed to drive taxis. Now, more people are becoming Uber drivers than taxi drivers because they are getting more customers and it costs far less. For some time, the state government even declared some forms of Uber to be "illegal" though I think that they have reversed their opinion now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268479#p268479 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Last I checked Uber was virtually none existant in the uk, or at least the amount of uber cars was so small you'd pratically never get one so it's not a service I've ever bothered with, I just tend to use standard taxies since that's what the mobility money is for. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268468#p268468 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? I think that some people with disability like Uber because it is a lot less than traiditional taxis. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268395#p268395 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Well Tj that doesn't sound so bad. In the Uk, long distance trains can be expensive and though a disabled person does have a disabled rail card that only means a reduction on train costs, and of course there are the occasions you need a taxi simply to get to a given place successfully, hence why mobility is part of the payments in the Uk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268367#p268367 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? The person with whom the person with disability meets is employed by the National Disability Insurance Agency, the agency monitoring the deployment of the NDIS. If the person with disability feels that their needs are not being met, they can appeal to have their application reviewed by another person.Transportation costs may be covered, but I would think that they are not covered as--at least in some parts of Australia--some forms of public transportation are free or heavily discounted to people who are blind. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268358#p268358 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Theoretically that sounds like a good idea, though it depends upon themotivation of the assesser, since if their primary motive is to save money then probably a less good thing all around. I also wonder how that scheme would work with say travel costs for a blind person. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268327#p268327 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In Australia, all people with disability are eligible to receive a payment called the Disability Support Pension (DSP) from when they turn sixteen until the age when they are eligible to receive the Aged Pension. Depending on the nature and severity of their disability, payments may be adjusted. Payments are also adjusted for such things as with whom the person with disability is living. I thought that people who are permanently blind are eligible to receive a slightly different form of the DSP, but I cannot find information on it. At the moment, another initiative called the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is in the process of being rolled out across Australia. People with disability meet annually with a person with whom they can discuss their goals and needs for the upcoming year. After this consultation, the person with disability is assisted in accessing the supports that they will need to help them. Supports for people who are blind could, for example, include suc h things as instruction in independent living skills; orientation and mobility instruction; and access to assistive technology. The client with disability will either be given the necessary money to cover such a cost; or they may have to contribute a small amount towards it--however, the whole process of the NDIS is supposed to be very individual. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=268294#p268294 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? @Afrim, In the Uk we have the similar registered blind vs registered partially sighted, however the application forms for bennifit are more setup based on what you can do than how much you can see. Actually a lot of people fall fowl of them because there has been a tendency to find any reason to reject, especially more recently. For example one question requires "additional medical evidence" which most people leave blank, but actually which needs a statement from someone like an ocupational therapist to count, indeed the friend of mine who is in a wheel chair etc nearly failed on that basis. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267822#p267822 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In my country, blindness is divided into two categories. In the first group, there are those who are considered to be completely blind, while in the second are those people who are visually impaired. Based on this criteria, if you are completely blind you will get 200 dollars, while if you are visually impaired, which means you can move on your own, read normally as others do, and perhaps do the jobs the sighted people can, you get 100 dollars. It's not too bad, though the lowest salary by law is 250 dollars here.Today was announced the first change which I mentioned in the first post. So, if you find a job in a legal institution, albeit private or public, your monthly income will be cut. This could be called a shame, because one out of 10 blind people could find a job that offers a reasonable wage. Many of them will be hired in call services, such as client service in mobile companies, or simply call centre, not forgetting that many of the employees will refuse to hire blind folks.The cane training here is completed while you're in the special school. We have a class which they call something like physical education, and during these classes you get training, which is of course free. My trainer was a very bad one. She didn't have any type of specialisation for blind puples, but fortunately we had a french team who trained us when I was on the eighth grade.We also had computer training which was held locally in major cities of Albania. The teacher was nice and there I learned to use Word and Excel. It was there where I learned to create tables and write rich documents with lots of features she taught us. At that time I was very intelligent compared to this time. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267803#p267803 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? You said it, Dark!The mobility trainer I got wasn't very good, so I pretty much ended up training myself with practice around the apartment complex and reading what books I could find.When I started JAWS training, at the beginning of the second session, the trainer asked, "What do you want to learn today?". I never returned to that class and just used the training materials that Freedom Scientific provides.Later, I found out that that rehabilitation center had most of its funding removed when they discovered that the previous CEO embezzled more than half of its money. That's pretty sick, stealing from handicapped people that have no way to defend themselves. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267708#p267708 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Guide dogs in the Uk are also free, or at least technically you buy the dog for the grand total of fifty pence, which is less than one euro or one dollar.This is done so that there is a legal contract for you and the dog and the guide dog association have responsability you uphold the end of that contract, so it's a legal fiction really. Mobility training in the Uk is also free, but is a little different since it can come from various sources, and generally how good your training is will depend upon the person. Guide dogs (the service), do provide mobility training as well as dogs, and of course training with you and your dog. Local councils tend to employ their own mobility or special services officers. I've heard some people have had good ones, butI've seen several more pretty dire ones than I have decent ones. the rnib also provides mobility and other training, though again how good that is depends far more on the person and I confess in general I've never been so impressed with the Rnib as an institution, which is a shame when it's sort of the default in the Uk. one of the major problems in the uk is that the government tends to automatically refer people to the Rnib, ie, the royal national institute for the blind, which is suposedly a charity (though runs far more like a business with share holders, a board of directors and a ceo, none of whom of course are blind). Some of the people who work for them and some of their individual institutions are useful (I'm most impressed with their audio description service), but generally I've found their ethos far too far of the "Get your carer to do it" type of mentality, and their fixation on old people and those who will leave them money in their wills is rather scary, which is a little bad when so many people get referd to them by the government. So, in the Uk yes your mobility and other training is free, though you might have some shenanigans in finding someone vaguely compitant to train you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267663#p267663 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Over here we have the South African social security agency (sassa) which is responsible for all social grants. After days of sitting in long queues and several forms, you'll eventually get a disability grant (many people I've spoken to have said this process wasn't as tedious for them, so I was probably just unlucky to end up at an overloaded and/or inefficient branch.) I haven't heard of someone getting turned down yet, although mine was made temporary several times even though I've been visually impaired since birth, and since this is due to damage to my occipital lobe it's unlikely to change anytime soon. But after a few annual reapplications it was finally made permanent. It's not enough to live on though, and is immediately terminated upon finding a job, unless of course it's an informal job which leaves no paper trail, in which case the government doesn't need to know. Fortunately the department of labour also has a bursary for di sabled students which is enough to cover tuition and accommodation up to a certain point, as well as some money for food etc. They also give a once off amount for assistive devices after sending them quotes of such, so everyone sends in quotes of jaws and a braille display which far exceeds the maximum amount, so they can claim the max amount. There are also other bursaries for blind students that will act as a secondary bursary to cover any additional costs if the primary bursary does not cover everything, so getting through university is generally not a problem for us. Having a disabled child also entitles one to certain tax returns (I'm not clued in about the specifics of this but I know my dad has been and is still doing it).The monthly disability grant we get is roughly (and very roughly, I did a lot of rounding) about 95 euros / 80 pounds / 100 dollars.Not sure how it works in other countries but here getting a guide dog and the training that goes with is is p ractically free, so they are rather common (I personally feel like I'm fine with a cane so haven't considered it). URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267647#p267647 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? I forgot to mention, when you are awarded SSDI (Social Security Disability Income) benefits, you automatically qualify for medicare which provides health care, hospitalization, and prescription insurance.It's hard to get SSDI, they look for any excuse to deny you, most people are denied benefits the first time they apply and have to go through a years long appeal process. SSDI apparently has a higher cap than SSI, I get about $1,000 from them each month.The downside is, when you reach retirement age, 65 years old, all your disability income benefits stop, that also includes any long term disability benefits you might be getting. At this point you are completely on your own and have to use the same Social Security Income resources all other retirees use as well as your retirement account if you are lucky enough to have one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267499#p267499 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries?
Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? @Afrim, actually several of those things sound rather good. For example in England, nobody is paid to go to university 9the other way around), blind or not, and there are no specific government assistance packages with phone bills, electricity, busses or anything else. You get the mobility payments as part of your personal independence and that's pretty much that. You don't even get tv license reduction anymore.It's a shame training isn't better though.The job situation however sounds very familiar, I've heard of similar aruments over here, I don't think that's so much a thing about albania as it is just a general fact about silly companies and disabled people. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267498#p267498 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? @Dark, While I agree that the person who reaches the age where he's able to work himself should not get extra money to his family for assistance, it's also true that here the blind person cannot move on his own. The reason is not because he's disabled completely or paralised, but the infrastructure of streets and pavements is unacceptable, therefore they will need the assistance of someone else. What's more, people are not trained to walk with a kane or the training they have is nearly uncountable. Guidedogs are non-existent in my country. When I asked some blind folks about them, they didn't have an idea what I was asking about. So that's why the family gets extra money if they have a disabled person (especially blind) among them. We also do not get extra money for not having the ability to find a job provided that the responsibility for not finding one does not fall over the blind person himself, but because few businesses or institutions are ready to employ blind folks. I remember last year I was looking to work during summer at a call centre here in my city, and I sent an e-mail to whoever was going to have a look at it. I told them that I had just finished high school, I had enough knowledge to use computer and office products, as well as owning English at B2+ level, as well as Italian, but not at the same proficiency. The lady called me and told that I could not be accepted because I wrote on my email that I was blind and for this reason I would need to use my personal computer on work. She said, we could accept you but we cannot share data with anyone, so we are very sad to tell you that we cannot accept you under these circumstances. I went on to tell her that I could just install the screen reader on the computer where I would be working but then she replied, "Ah sorry, I can't help you with this.", and then she ended the call.What's true is that if you are lucky to find a job in a public institution, your monthly payment will be cut by who knows what percentage. That is not a bad thing despite having this cut, since if you get a reasonable salary which is enough to cover your expenses, you still have some money received monthly. Also, if you live aside from your parents and you rent a house, nobody is going to share your monthly rent with you, so you have to pay it fully yourself. We, however, get compensated for internet, landline bills as well as 35% of your monthly electricity bill, including here the line of busses that travel in your city. Local busses are very cheap here, so that does not make any big difference. I'm not sure if the government still covers the bills for disabled people who assign contracts with different mobile phone companies.A good thing, and a very good one actually, is that if you are blind and you go to university, your payment is doubled. This means that if you in general get 500 pounds monthly, you will then get 1000 pounds if you are studying in a public university. That has helped me a lot this year indeed, and that's why I am concerned to what will happen after this reform.As for other categories of disabilities I'm not sure, but I have a cousin who is not able to move, not able to speak and eat on his own. In our currency, he gets around 500 dollars, which is twenty dollars more than the payment of a high school teacher. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267492#p267492 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries?
Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? I can see the logic of paying the family for extra expenses for care of a disabled child, my sister has multiple disabilities and yes, there are many extra things to pay for including for assistance to get her dressed in the morning. however I'm not sure about paying the family when a blind person becomes an adult, since that suggests that a blind person will always essentially be a burden on his/her family. In the Uk, people get personal independence payments, which covers expenses for dsiability related matters such as extra travel costs or equipment. This would be paid if a personn is working or not, however getting it is somewhat problematic since the service uses any excuse to deny people (one of my friends who has both clinical depression and juvenile arthritis so serious that she uses a wheel chair was nearly denied this).There is then also esa, or social allowence, which substitutes a wage if a disabled person canot get a job, which most blind peop le can't. These two together are not exactly a huge income, but enough to live on, particularly with housing bennifit. Housing bennifit is a none disability related bennifit which is paid to anyone with a low income to afford rent. The nice part is, if you live in council accommodation, then the housing bennifit basically pays all of your rent, not needing you to pay anymore, so essentially all I've had to pay over these years are utility bills and a certain percentage of council tax (since my income isn't large enough for income tax). Of course the downer is a lot of council flats are pretty cruddy, but I had the luck of finding one that isn't. What is now going to happen now I'm married I don't know, particularly since my lady can't apply for any bennifits until she's been in the country for three years, though since we've been surviving fairly well for the last six months on my income we should be okay, though housing is another fact we need to sort out. Personally I'm a fan of the governments pip or personal independence payment system, since that way rather than being provided by goodness knows what services the government deams necessary, you just get the money to pay for things yourself. For example, there was some shenanigans a few years ago where the government gave blind people low rate mobility moneymoney on the basis that people in wheel chairs had more serious mobility needs. This lead to the silly situation that a person in a wheel chair with their own car (admitedly a car who's adaptations would cost a lot, but once bought a normal car for running costs),k was getting more cash to pay for their travel needs from the government than a blind person who had to use public transport everywhere. The initial answer given by the government when this inequity was pointed out "Well use charity taxi services" just didn't work, being as said t axi services needed booking three weeks in advance, and had about two cars per 100 clients! .There was another more serious hoo har over equipment, since when my brother went to university the local council basically said "we're going to buy equipment" and bought a hole bunch of obsolete stuff from a firm they had a very dodgy deal going with, meaning that he nearly ended up with an out of date version of zoomtext rather than the luna magnificantion system he used, plus a laptop running windows 95 in 2000. Thankfully that got sorted out fairly well, and when I went to university two years later I basically was asked "what equipment do you need" which is how I got my initial supernova license. So moral of the story, independent payments a good thing for someone who knows their own mind, and the job thing, pretty much not g oing to happen without a huge social change I think. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267455#p267455 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? The US also has SSI (supplemental Security Income) for disabled who are unemployed/low income, which pays a maximum of just over $700/month (around €635, or £540), for an individual living alone. I remember it being around $400-500 when I was still officially living with my parents (so while I was at college and the two years I took off). You can spend it however you want, but must have less than $2000 in resources (this includes extra houses or cars which "can be easily converted to cash"). There are special rules for blind people, so that if you start working, they only take away $0.50 for each $1.00 you earn. IIUC, this also comes with access to Medicaid health insurance in many states, but it varies from state to state. IIUC, this doesn't come with any other services.SSI is enough for me to live on, if I never plan on doing anything like paying off student loans or buying any of those overpriced braille displays or funding a better game than the crap I've been making. It's enough for me because I own my home and therefore don't have to pay rent. Also, I'm not sure it wouldn't dry up much faster if I started traveling at all.(Also, Medicaid is very picky about what they pay for. Notably, they won't pay for stimulants (the primary ADHD medication) if you aren't a student or employed. I understand the reasoning but feel like there's a slight chicken-and-egg problem, there.) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267428#p267428 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In the US, we have Social Security Disability Income which is paid out as cash to the disabled person. I have mine deposited directly into my checking account.From here I am guessing because I don't know how it works for disabled minors or children.Since children don't normally work, I believe their care is left to their family with no additional income to help them care for the disabled child. Once the child reaches working age, they can apply for Social Security Disability Income. If they are accepted, payments would be made in cash to the child's parents or legal guardian. And like me, most people would have it deposited directly into their checking accounts.From there, it is up to the disabled person or their family to decide how to use the disability income. SSince disability income is in lue of a working income it can be used for anything from rent to groceries to filling special needs to entertainment. Once disbursed to the disabled perso n or their family, what is done with it is not tracked.Besides Social Security Disability Income, there is also long term disability insurance, usually this is provided as a benefit by your employer, but I would bet you could buy it yourself if your employer didn't provide it. My last employer did, so when I lost my vision, I started getting benefit payments from that insurance as well as from Social Security Disability Income.hth URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267419#p267419 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? In the US, we have Social Security Disability Income which is paid out as cash to the disabled person. I have mine deposited directly into my checking account.From here I am guessing because I don't know how it works for disabled minors or children.Since children don't normally work, I believe their care is left to their family with no additional income to help them care for the disabled child. Once the child reaches working age, they can apply for Social Security Disability Income. If they are accepted, payments would be made in cash to the child's parents or legal guardian. And like me, most people would have it deposited directly into their checking accounts.From there, it is up to the disabled person or their family to decide how to use the disability income. SSince disability income is in lue of a working income it can be used for anything from rent to groceries to filling special needs to entertainment. Once disbursed to the disabled perso n or their family, what is done with it is not tracked.hth URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267419#p267419 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries?
How monthly payments work for blind people in your countries? Hello everyone, Today, a national newspaper here in Albania published an article involving the way payments will be divided for disabled people. Mainly, the ministry which deals with social matters said that the way payments are chosen for blind people, but also people who suffer from other disabilities, will change. This means that some of the money these people receive will be converted into services, therefore avoiding some responsibility from the family, which is in charge of the disabled person. In general, the mother or father of the child who is blind takes a small amount of money to care for his child as a replacement to a full monthly wage. However, this so-cold social wage that the family takes to replace their full salary which he or she would get from a fulltime job does not include any kind of insurance for the person in charge of the disabled person, which means that if my father falls on an accident while coming to get me home from school, nobody will cover the expenses needed to heal his injuries. Anyway, this is another problem that needs to be discussed in another topic, but what’s more important is that the families will get less money for the care they pay to their disabled people, which will rise more problems and disatisfaction because the services employed to help blind people will not be able to meet the needs of blind people especially. So, instead of having your parent to give you a lift to go to school, you will have an assistant which will do the job for your parent. At first, this does not sound a very bad idea, because the parent could choose to do another job apart from caring for his son, but the biggest problem is that hardly any job opportunities exist here and the most idiotic thing that they say is the blind person will be able to fulfill the cash converted into services because he/she will find a job, because we are working on it. So far, only 5 to 8 out of 10,000 blind people are hired in public institutions and hardly anyone in a private one. It’s true that 8 blind teachers work in the special school for blind people, but that means nothing to where we should be. So, let’s say, the average is 20 people hired out of 10,000 in all the country.So, what do you guys think, is this a good or bad movement for blind people? Will it have a positive or negative effect?And finally, how does payment work for disabled people in your countries? Is a part of it converted into services, or is it received fully by the family and they have the power to manage it.Cheers! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=267410#p267410 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
