This fall was matched by an increase in dependency on state handouts (disability benefits in particular), property crime and family breakdown.
If your organisation favours cash transfers or food/cash-for-work approaches instead of handouts, include disability in the beneficiary selection criteria.
All handouts, from jobless aid to disability benefits, have become less generous, more short-lived and harder to qualify for.All this has brought about palpable changes.
Mr. Ghanimi, 50, who has not been able to work because of lingering pain, is supporting his family on a monthly disability check of $761, food stamps and handouts from friends.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, one in six working-age men in Puerto Rico are claiming disability benefits.Many families do not view the federal handouts as temporary.
Much of the disabilities community considers the term handicapped pejorative; it originated in Elizabethan England, when people with disabilities were forced to beg on the street and were given a cap for handouts.
