there will always be people who play the system
any system
for personal gain, regardless of what it does to others or costs.
its certainly nothign new, wont be going away anytime soon
there will always be peopele like that
as for who decides.
that's a good question
i was a witness to a friend from Deafie school, who was also born legally blind. he was on odsp (ontario disability support programme) for 22 years.
he left the province to visits family for 3 months.
he even told his worker to make sure no legal plms would catch him. he even asked his worker if he could go. the answer was yes, so he left.
came back went to his worker and was told he no longer qualifies for odsb and that he needed to begin the process all over again which took over three years. in which time he lost his case again and again. appealing it so on so forth. no one in the gov could answer how he was on the system for 22 years then all the sudden is deemed non disabled due to leaving the Provence. (which your allowed to do anyway..) but it didnt matter. he gets the tribunal to look at it the final arbiter of the nameless faceleess bureaucrats who decide these things... he had a laywer. doctors. adiologist, the works. a terp.
the gov had one lady the rest were just in some wee box in the middle of the table which they could hear audio , it wasnt even video conferenced. during the tribunal the women present interrupted the terp and said "your clients not deaf he can talk"
to which the discussion deteriorated. turned out leaving the province to visits family gets you kicked off even if your a grandfather case, (been int he system for over 20 years)but leaving for work wont...(yes i know..i know...but such is the rules), he even did it the honest way told them first even asked for permision. if he would of just left and came back they would of been non the wiser, but he didnt want to break the law...(yawn)
and suffered for it.
he lost the case. and was told to get a job. having never worked before, no education (deafie school drop out). age 50 next...
ive also known literally hundreds of people on odsp for addiction. some getting 23 hundred a month. due to the illness.
which is a high priority illness for getting accepted into disability.
so when faced with a system such as the above...
i do question the education level of those making the decisions...