#social benefits

[head-post]

Ukrainian refugees in Germany: stay or come back home?

A potential conflict of national interests over Ukrainian refugees must be foreseen and avoided, according to Social Europe.

The war in Ukraine has forced millions of its citizens to flee their homes in search of asylum, including abroad. According to the latest estimates, the majority of refugees have found shelter in Europe – 5.8 million out of 6.2 million people registered worldwide. Among all EU countries, Poland received the largest number of refugees – 1.6 million, Germany – 1.1 million.

Since the beginning of the war, Ukrainians have had no problems integrating into German society: visa-free entry, temporary residence without asylum procedures, employment opportunities – 18% of Ukrainian refugees have already found jobs.

Even if Ukrainians remain unemployed in Germany for the first time,  they receive higher social benefits than in Ukraine and are directly integrated into the support structures of employment centres. This official hospitality, as well as the presence of relatives and/or friends in Germany for many Ukrainian refugees, has created favourable conditions for a more dynamic integration than those who were forced to move in the past. However, will this always be the case or only as long as there is war in Ukraine?

Learn more HERE

[psychiatric-warfare]

this country is the absolute fucking worst, ive been trying to get unemployment since december and i just got a letter saying im not being approved because i didnt have a valid reason to leave my job....

I. Am. Disabled. i left my job because it was aggravating my disability, theres a paper trail of my resignation, multiple doctors notes requesting accomodations, incident reports from collapsing when those accomodations were denied followed by my 2 weeks notice, but yea sure i left for no good reason

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

zany to me how these um actually nihilists like to pretend that "um actually love/friendship/cooperation/kindness isn't real bc we evolved that way to benefit ourselves as a species..." um YES? that's also where tool use comes from? that's where cooking comes from? am i supposed to think social bonds & tool use & cooking aren't "real" because they evolved over time instead of appearing fully formed from the ether?

sorry u can't enjoy things. im a superior being twirling a fork in my bowl of delicious noodles whilst staring in adoration at the world

[pcihomecaregroupinc]

Home care services extend far beyond the physical needs of individuals; they encompass emotional and social aspects that are vital for holistic well-being. At PCI Home Care Group, Inc., we understand that home care is not just about assisting with daily tasks; it’s about enriching the lives of our clients on multiple levels. The emotional and social benefits of home care services in Bronx, New York, are profound and far-reaching, impacting the lives of our clients and their families.

[julierysava]

Exploring the Social Benefits of Universal Credits and the Essential Checks Involved

Introduction:

Universal credits represent a transformative approach to social welfare, aiming to streamline and simplify the provision of financial assistance to citizens. This system involves a comprehensive set of checks to ensure benefits are distributed efficiently and fairly. In this article, we will delve into the social benefits of universal credits and the crucial checks to accompany this innovative approach.

Social Benefits of Universal Credits:

1. Reducing Poverty and Inequality:

Universal credits are designed to provide financial support to those in need, helping to alleviate poverty and bridge economic gaps. By offering a more inclusive system, universal credits contribute to reducing income inequality, creating a more balanced and just society.

2. Simplified Administration:

One of the key advantages of universal credits is the simplification of administrative processes. Consolidating various benefits into a single payment system reduces bureaucratic complexities, making it easier for both recipients and government agencies to manage and oversee social welfare programs.

3. Promoting Financial Stability:

Universal credits provide a stable source of income for recipients, promoting financial security. This stability can empower individuals and families to plan for the future, invest in education, and break the cycle of poverty.

4. Flexibility and Adaptability:

The universal credit system is designed to be flexible, adapting to changes in individuals' circumstances. This ensures the support offered remains relevant and effective, catering to the evolving needs of recipients.

Checks Involved in Universal Credits:

1. Income Verification:

Rigorous checks are in place to verify the income of applicants accurately. This process helps determine the level of support needed and ensures resources are allocated appropriately.

2. Work-Related Checks:

Universal credits often involve assessments related to employment. This can include checks on job-seeking activities, work hours, and efforts made by recipients to secure employment. These checks aim to encourage self-sufficiency and active participation in the workforce.

3. Residence and Citizenship Verification:

To maintain the integrity of the system, checks are conducted to verify the residency and citizenship status of applicants. This helps prevent fraudulent claims and ensures that benefits are allocated to eligible individuals.

4. Periodic Reviews and Updates:

The universal credit system requires regular reviews and updates to reflect changes in recipients' circumstances. This dynamic approach ensures support remains targeted and effective over time.

Conclusion:

Universal credits represent a significant shift in the mind changing social welfare, offering a more streamlined and inclusive approach to financial assistance. The accompanying checks are essential for maintaining the integrity of the system, ensuring benefits reach those who truly need them. By combining social benefits with effective checks, universal credits contribute to building a more equitable and resilient society.

[manuelnunezmd]

The Benefits of Playing Games and Puzzles for Your Health and Cognition

Introduction Playing games and puzzles is not just a fun way to pass the time; it can also have numerous benefits for your health and cognition. Whether you’re solving crossword puzzles, playing chess, or engaging in video games, these activities offer a range of advantages that go beyond mere entertainment. Photo by Vlada Karpovich on Pexels.com Games and puzzles can contribute to both your…

[worldbicycleday]

Cycling as a Part of Daily Life: A Review of Health Perspectives.

Research consistently shows that providing cycling infrastructure brings social benefits that far outweigh its initial investment and that people who cycle are healthier and happier.

[intlforestday]

(3rd meeting) United Nations Forum on Forests, 18th session.

The thematic priorities for UNFF18 and UNFF19 are: (i) Enhancing forest-based economic, social and environmental benefits; (ii) Increase significantly the area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of sustainably managed forests, as well as the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests; and (iii) mobilizing financial resources and strengthening scientific and technical cooperation; promoting governance frameworks to advance implementation; and enhancing cooperation, coordination and coherence, for sustainable forest management.

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UNFF18 (8 to 12 May 2023, UNHQ, New York) will be a technical session, and thematically linked to the UNFF19 (policy session) in 2024. As a technical session and in accordance with the guidance provided in ECOSOC resolution 2020/14 and 2021/6, UNFF18 should include an interactive exchange of experiences and lessons learned on thematic priorities among Members of the UNFF, the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and its member organizations, regional and subregional organizations and processes, and major groups and other relevant stakeholders. The interactive exchange should include consideration of the science-policy interface and cross-sectoral and emerging issues and will take into account youth, gender and regions perspectives. The main outcome of UNFF18 will be a chair's summary of the discussions, including possible proposals for consideration at UNFF19. 

Related Sites and Documents

United Nations Forum on Forests.

UNFF18 Provisional Organization of Work.

[champion-learning]

As one of the leading providers of developmental disability care, we highly recommend summer camps. Here are some of the best reasons why

[mascrapping]

Arguments to Support my Scrapbooking Hobby to my Spouse

Many of the scrapbooking community have spouses or significant others that are supportive of our hobby, but some have partners that don’t understand the passion. So, here are some arguments you could use to defend your scrapbooking hobby with your spouse or significant other: Stress relief: Scrapbooking can be a great way to unwind and de-stress after a long day. It’s a creative outlet that can…

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

“My therapist told me that, according to psychology, girls who often stay up til 3 am for no reason actually show a trauma response. You lacked a loving mother figure in childhood, so you deprive yourself of sleep because you weren’t taught to love yourself.” 

I came across that piece of info on social media recently, and I’d like to offer an addition: 

My therapist told me that, according to psychology, you can make up random things and pass them off as scientific… if you just put enough meaningless phrases in front of it. 

You probably caught the irony here. In fact, “according to psychology” and “my therapist told me” are completely meaningless phrases in my statement here! They make it seem like I’m presenting a scientific fact, but there’s no substance behind them. I’m just telling you my own thought. 

I did it on purpose and wanted you to catch it, but it can be more tricky to spot out there in the wild (or, well, on social media) - because intuitively, that quote up there sounds pretty trustworthy, doesn’t it? We are taught to look for a source and it conveniently provides one for us: psychology. Psychology says this, so it’s legit! 

But phrases like “according to psychology”, “my therapist says” or even “studies say” may only pose as sources. Let’s look into it a bit closer: 

“According to psychology” - Psychology is not really a source that can be quoted like that. Psychology is an immense field of study that covers lots of different areas (biological psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, behavioral psychology etc.), so who or what exactly is being cited here? A specific expert? A specific study? A specific book? 

“My therapist said” - in which context? Therapists usually give advice that’s tailored to the patient’s individual situation which likely looks different to yours (since no two people lead the exact same life), so how do you know this specific piece of information is also applicable to your situation (let alone applicable to everyone)?

The next one is especially tricky:

“Studies say” - studies can be a great source, but which study are we talking about? Who did the study? How was it done? How many people participated in it? Are the results generalizable in the way the post claims? (And before all that: is there even any specific study being cited at all here, or is this just a fully meaningless claim?) 

While we are on the topic of generalization: obviously I’m not trying to make some blanket statement that everyone who ever uses these phrases is a liar with evil intentions. Sometimes we just use simple phrases for complex concepts to make them more accessible or easily digestible, and that’s fine. 

And just as importantly, sometimes we are just human and make some thinking mistakes (such as “this connection my therapist made about MY childhood and MY behavior in adulthood must be applicable to everyone who shows that behavior. Making that connection helped me, so surely I’m helping others by posting about it!”) without any bad intentions. 

I’m just encouraging you to critically think about the information you read or share online - even beyond the basic “is there a source” check. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[dykedvonte]

You ever just see a Mouthwashing take that makes you want to bang your head into a wall? I literally just saw someone claim Curly couldn't have been emotionally abused by Jimmy before the crash because he was in a higher position of power than Jimmy.

-Shrimp Anon

The mouthwashing fandom has shown me that people genuinely do believe that certain types of abuse are not as detrimental as other types especially when they deem those immune/resistant, ergo, believing one is objectively worse no matter how it affects the person nor the intersections of power, history and dynamics at play.

Get ready cause this is a yap session:

Cause like it's heavily implied that Curly and Jimmy's friendship was toxic and abusive, pointedly in the direction of how Jimmy uses Curly's belief/comfort in him. Curly wasn't forced to enable Jimmy but he was emotional and mentally on edge around him in almost every scene in some way. Mental and emotional abuse are not contingent on what positions you have at work. Yeah, he's Jimmy's boss but he was Jimmy's friend first and it's like getting into Psych discussion to talk about how social power tends to overshadow any perceived organizational power in the human mind. People are concerned about their jobs ofc but they tend to hang onto and put more value/investment into their personal relationships, hence why there tends to be laws and restrictions around mixing the two.

I always see the sentiments that "Curly is a grown ass man", "Curly is bigger than Jimmy", "Curly is Jimmy's boss", "He just needed a backbone" as criticisms of Curly and while I do agree that on the surface level all of these to be true and viable ways Curly could've taken more control of the situation, I often look at the parallels of Anya and Curly as victims of Jimmy pre/post crash.

The way Jimmy talks to Anya post crash is how he talked to Curly in the pre-crash segments. It's hard to pin-point mainly because we know he hates and wants nothing to do with Anya compared to his contrary but similarly handled obsessions with Curly. It's a weird sort of "honey-moon" effect of abuse Jimmy does in terms of emotional and mental victimization. He is always horrid to Anya, always talking down or questioning her abilities and thoughts in a situation, this of course includes the harassment and assault. However, he has a moment of attempted gentleness/conditioning when he question her about the mouthwash when she's contemplating drinking it at the table. The key difference is he has no personal investment in Jimmy outside wanting nothing to do with him, meaning there is no sort of romanticized version of him that he can condition her off of. He knows this, hence, why he always reverts to trying to make her to scared to oppose him.

This sort of give and take of "kindness" doesn't work on her because she knows he is just doing it to take more from her than whatever he could possibly give but it reflects even the "softer" scenes between him and Curly where he always rewords or rephrases Curly's sentiments and concerns to sound more shallow. He is feigning a deeper understanding by reworking Curly's emotions into something bad and needing to be hidden. Everything is laced with envy and resentment, an outburst just around the corner, I mean he even slams the table in the birthday party scene, a tactic in emotional manipulation to set the victim on edge and cloud their ability to respond. Even if Curly knows Jimmy won't get physical in that moment, the physical actions is intended to make him back down in the confrontation in case it does. This is something that is just not person specific. It ingrains itself into how you interact with the world and life and it shows in major and minor ways with Curly.

Post-crash, the abusive nature is more in tandem to the physical victimization Anya went through and the stripping of voice and autonomy we see take place. Like the parasite in HFIM, Jimmy speaks for Curly most of the time and puts words in his mouth, similarly to how he takes Anya's plans as his own. He very commonly, with the both of them mind you, supplements the worst aspects of himself into them; pettiness, selfishness, lack of understanding... And tries to cover himself with their best qualities; kindness, planning, initiative, etc...

These parallel are just to say that positional power has little to do with if a person can be abused and how it can even be flipped to further the abuse. There is no doubt that Curly could've picked up on Jimmy's envy of his position hence another reason he never confronted him as a Captain but as a friend as doing so would immediately put Jimmy in a space to be confrontational/combative.

I think the disdain some people have when they talk about the heavily implied if not implicitly stated emotional/mental abuse Curly experienced being Jimmy's friend is when treating it as an excuse to why he didn't do more. I can understand that completely because it is not an excuse to why he didn't do more but is a very real reason people in his position in these scenarios can experience whether in the context of a work or social environment. However, I also think the way people talk about it really does demonstrate a bigger problem when talking about abuse when somehow who is/was abused is either part of the issue or enabled it.

Harkening back to the sentiments about Curly's inaction regarding Jimmy, I think the exact phrases I used/have seen show how there is an inherent belief that it is easier to overpower the effects of emotional/mental abuse that go in tandem with the perception of Curly as someone who should be able to. There is not an age you suddenly stop being susceptible to abuse nor a set point or low where you realize how it has affected you. You don't suddenly know to stand up or put a face on to face your abuser nor admit that you inadvertently enabled them to subjugate someone else to the same treatment. Maybe it's my psych brain but their is this growing belief that direct action is somehow easy or always the best method with the game shows you instances where it is not always the case. In real life that rings true too. He should have done more, but it's not impossible to see why he struggled to find a way or didn't even if it makes us mad.

It's not easy to suddenly gain a "back-bone". You don't immediately want to resort to aggression, especially if it mirrors the type you were a victim to. You don't want to believe you allowed yourself to be treated this bad, let it get that bad or allowed something bad to happen to someone else. It is easy to be in denial, to retreat to your thoughts or make excuses to avoid the painful truth. It's frustrating but in a way we know is relatable. It why we both hate and love Curly for it. We know we'd be better, we think we'd be better, we like to think we wouldn't falter in the same ways but it's always easier to say that from the outside looking in. It's easy to see what he was doing wrong because we are seeing it, not him, but the game really does make you picture what you would do if this was your raw reality and it's why this debate about Curly seems so never ending/contradictory. We can all say what we'd do but bottom line is that's much different when you're in the moment with all the emotions and human feelings attached.

I personally think Mouthwashing tackles the themes of rape culture, enabling, toxic masculinity, types of abuse and patriarchy in ways that are meant to deconstruct the typical straightforward views we mostly have of these concepts and how little subtilities of them are just as, if not more, detrimental than the overt/obvious parts. The game deals with the idea of little details and bigger picture in a way to show that sometimes the bigger picture is not the issue but the little details that make it up. It's why I have a personal dislike of depictions of Jimmy as the typical horrible person who would of course do something like this because the game is about noticing the little warning signs, the foreshadowing and foresight.

It's why I dislike the typical discussion of "bro code" and "boys will be boys" for the game because the game makes a point to avoid the standard depictions of such. It is about the type of men who still enable despite not condoning, agreeing or even perpetuating harmful beliefs because they can't see the little details or the ways it seeps into their everyday. The severity is not obvious to them as it was not obvious to Curly, Swansea or even Daisuke the way it was to a woman like Anya. There are little details about Jimmy that should ring alarms but if you are too naive like Daisuke, too distant like Swansea or too conditioned like Curly, they are just off markers.

There is 100% more constructive/concise ways to say "Curly was a victim of Jimmy's abuse on an emotional and mental aspect that clouded his judgements and perceptions in the scenario" while also critiquing on the side of "Curly still had a responsibility to protect Anya as a crew mate and Captain that he failed to do due to biases and stigma's he failed to surpass" without the weird condemnation people give him about should've knowing better than to let himself be manipulated by a person he considered a close, if not family/best-friend and had his own reasons to trust initially. Also stop being weird about victims of abuse in general with this fandom, like sorry not everyone has a like social epiphany the moment someone's nasty to them. People are treating it like you immediately know when you are in a toxic relationship immediately or comprehend when a person is actively dangerous and either it's your fault for not knowing how to leave/cut them off or you deserve it. Like the hypocrisy of people believing how certain fans treat the story reflect their irl views but not their own is crazy.

End statement is: I honestly don't even know man, I've been writing this too long and just like no man on that ship was perfect or really helped Anya when it mattered and I feel like pitting them against each other in discussion on who did the least or most or how it was justified sucks cause in the end Anya always did the most and best thing for herself.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

It really is so true that you never know what someone’s going through behind closed doors. I’ve made being gentle and kind my default bc I’ve had super put together friends disclose the most harrowing time of their lives to me and it’s like oh?? You were going through that???? I would’ve never guessed

[tooies]

i think probably the reason i like the idea of like a girl secretly being a dragon but still trying to just have a life in society and be normal is because it's kinda a transfem narrative of the whole like everyone thinks you're a terrifying monster but you just want to be a girl. and the other reason is due to i'm otherkin