Who actually gets hurt with accusations of assistance scamming
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This is a comment from my text message archives (as I like to call them) that I left elsenet on 2025 02 20 that I thought I'd make more widely seeable. Someone must have mentioned the scammer rates of people on social assistance.
Good on the UBI front. But it's not the ones scamming - the percentage is low, by the by - that get hurt every time someone hops on the scammer train. The people dealing with the bulk and brunt of the abuse that stems from the scammer accusations are the people who actually need the assistance. Every time one person trots it out, there's a hundred more behind them, and it's real disabled people who have to deal with it - with the accusations, the abuse, the name calling, and the threats.
All for the sake of a tiny percentage who abuse the system, so every single one that does it can get a chubby from being rude and cruel, or to think they're the first person to enlighten us all about scams.
And people wonder why the disabled feel hated, disenfranchised, attacked. It's because they have to deal with this crap every damned day. Might be your first comment on it, but for the recipient it's just one if many, sometimes hundreds.
This scammer finger pointing makes targets of the disabled, targets people sometimes seem to delight a little too much in finding. It's too bad that none of them has yet realised that beating up on the vulnerable isn't going to save them from disability.
If it wants you, it'll come for you.