Tony, Kimberly, Valerie and Anouk cannot work due to illness: “People criticized my wedding party, shouldn’t I be at home?”
by atrocious_cleva82
Tony, Kimberly, Valerie and Anouk cannot work due to illness: “People criticized my wedding party, shouldn’t I be at home?”
by atrocious_cleva82
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>”People think I get money to do nothing, but with my benefits and all my medical costs I live below the poverty line.” This is what Tony (53) says, who cannot work due to rheumatism and therefore faces many prejudices. Kimberly (30), her wife Valerie (28) and Anouk (28) are also incapacitated for work due to a physical or mental illness. They tell their story, just as CM is conducting a campaign to break the stigma surrounding long-term illness.
Absolutely there are quite some people too ill to work and that situation sucks and we can’t expect those people to pause their life until they are better.
However, many, if not most people, I know, know someone who’s abusing the system. I do volunteering work with financially fragile people and have encountered many who once had a valid reason to be declared too ill to work, but are now fit to work, but choose not to.
Dit is echt schandalig. Ik zou voor geen miljoen in hun schoenen willen staan en hun ziektes/aandoeningen dragen. Die mensen vallen niet voor de lol uit. Empathie is precies ver zoek bij vele mensen en de discriminatie is beschamend. Als je zulke mensen tegenkomt kan je ipv “wat een profiteur”, beter denken “ik ben dankbaar dat ik gezond ben”
Sadly it’s not surprising how many people have prejudice against people with disability.
How could it be different with all the manipulation and hate we see and hear every day. Unwordly politicians producing the most stupid claims doesn’t help either.
Some people are stuck to their home with barely enough to survive, yet they are looked at as people who enjoy vacation at the expense of others.
During Covid people went nuts because they were “imprisoned” during lockdown for a few weeks. Yet, when they see sick people stuck for decades, those people are suddenly having the good life.
There are people that need it and also people that are abusing the system.
My experience is from working for one of the mutualiteiten and they are the biggest problem.
They are the ones that need to verify if someone is or still is disabled.
And at the same time they are paying them out.
This results in a financial benefit for every disabled member they have.
For example: lots of people that are home with some kind of sickness come in for their check up almost not able to walk. As soon as the doctor has signed on a daily basis multiple times a miracle happens and they forget they are having problems to walk. These are the people that are abusing the system and making it harder for the people that really need it.
Burnouts is also something that is misused. Couple of years ago RIZIV had numbers that showed the difference between business owners, employees and public servants. One of these categories had a lot more burnouts in a particular profession of them. It just did not make any sense and I suspect these numbers never got published.
Also know of people that are permanently in a wheelchair and they need to come back every x amount of time to see if they got better (maybe legs have grown back). Most of the time they get a harder time with additional paper work etc than the examples I mentioned before. Some of them even lose benefits because they have a hard time getting everything in order before a deadline.
It is important that something is going to happen. Social security is costing a lot of money that we as a society don’t have. We need to make sure it is going to the people that need it.
I propose as a solution not letting the payouts going anymore over the mutualiteiten. Let them verify if someone still is disabled but the monthly payment happens automaticly at Riziv.
Gek dat mensen klagen over mensen die zogenaamd misbruik maken van de ziektewet maar helemaal niets te zeggen hebben over vet overbetaalde bedrijfsleiders, welke de echte dieven zijn.
“Moeten werken” zit diep in onze cultuur, ik ben bijna 40 en toch voel ik nog altijd wat schuldgevoel als ik mij ziek zou melden voor het werk. Terwijl ik goed weet “ziek is ziek, blijf thuis”
Collega’s hoor je ook vaak bezig over andere die “weeral” ziek zijn. Tja liever dat ze thuis blijven dan dat ze mij ook ziek maken.
> met mijn uitkering en al mijn medische kosten **leef ik onder de armoedegrens**
“We betalen wel de meeste belastingen in de wereld, maar we krijgen een *uitstekende* gezondheidszorg voor terug!”