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    That’s indeed an issue. By definition an elephant is an elephant, even if it has great manes and hunts antilopes in the savanna.

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        The situation here is simply reversed.

        Where, in your examples, it takes lawyers and years to get benefits.

        Can you prove there isn’t a freeloader problem, in your situation, as each case takes years of legal resolution?

        We can only refer to anecdotal experience, or gross numbers. 1 out of 10 working age people are on disability in Belgium. What’s the gross ratio where you live?

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          About 1 in 12, and I know a couple people who need it but have been refused.

          By the way, just so you know I’m leaving your comments up because people have put a lot of effort into making good replies. But if that wasn’t the case, many of them don’t fit within the rules.

          It doesn’t sound like you’re bad faith, but this is number one a support group for disabled people, so repeating harmful stereotypes about freeloaders or whatever would generally be removed.

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            Not that dissimilar. Can you please provide a source?

            That would indeed be surprising information for me!