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legitster on May 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Policy punishes disabled people who save more than...

I think the proper framing here is that this is a (failed) attempt to limit abuse of the system.

It's still bad, but I would rather work on the assumption that this is merely incompetence rather than malice.

turtledove on May 20, 2022 [–]

At this point, not fixing it is indistinguishable from malice. We've known for at least a generation the side effects of means testing. Keeping them around is cruelty.

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