Disability benefits- is the system being abused?

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Some social media influencers have been criticised for bragging about claiming benefits for conditions like ADHD- do you think the current system is being abused and what needs to change?

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00:00As a retired social worker, I don't think the system is being abused and I think everybody

00:04has the right sorts of social care and benefits.

00:07A lot of people exist, right, in this country who have disabilities and they need to be

00:11supported and they deserve to be supported, of course. I think that people take advantage

00:17of it, for sure, and you can see it as like a microcosm in university, where it's people

00:23who have dyslexia or ADHD, they need extra time, they need to work on a laptop, right,

00:28and people are like, oh, well, I don't have dyslexia or ADHD or anything like that, but

00:33like, I'm going to apply for it anyways, because it's like, if one person can have it, then

00:37I should be able to, too, you know, and that's like wrong, do you know what I mean? People

00:42need like help, because they need help. You shouldn't abuse those systems, especially

00:47when those systems are in place to help people. It just feels like an abuse of a system, do

00:52you know what I mean?

00:54I think if something could be started to stop that, which I don't think it can be.

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