Stop Calling It Disability
People constantly get hung up on being “disabled.” How can you work if you’re 100% disabled? I shouldn’t claim disability because others are worse off than me. Etc. etc. etc.
Stop calling it disability and call it what it rightfully is, compensation. No different than workers comp at your civilian job. We had a guy pick up a glass container; little did he know it had been sitting in a heated area, no warning, he picked it up and it exploded. Tore through his hand and cut up one of his tendons in the little finger pretty bad. Totally not his fault, the container should have never been heated up and the person who put it there should have done something to notate the danger. Point is workman’s comp has been paying him $800 a month the last 20 years and for the rest of his life.
Another guy had an object fall on his foot, boots stopped most of the damage but he still has a limp, workman’s comp claim covers him for therapy and he’s being paid out for it.
Plenty of these scenarios out there in the civilian world and no one questions these payments and continued medical care while people continue to work the rest of their lives because they aren’t “disabled” they are being “compensated” for injuries sustained at work. “Signing a blank check up to and including the cost of my life” as people like to say doesn’t change the fact that is a “workplace injury. “ I volunteered for the military, yeah so did the guy working construction who had a ladder malfunction and the burger flipper that slipped on grease.
Get rid of the disability stigma and call it what it really is workman’s comp.