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India's inadequate disability pensions pushed its mental health patients to the brink amid lockdown


“The value of the emergency cash transfer worked out to less than $5 per month, which was grossly inadequate,” Satendra Singh, disability activist, told
IndiaSpend. “It should have been $1.9 per day, as per the International Labour Organization recommendation, or Rs 5,000 per month. Further, [the eligibility meant] only 8% of working-age adults with disabilities [were covered].”
In its Covid-19 response, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
urged countries to cover the “missing middle” – a group whose income often disqualifies its members from poverty-targeted schemes in which they do not have to contribute.
At the same time, many do not participate in contributory schemes (such as the ....

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Weekend when you would expect he would already be here. whether anything has changed in that protocol specifically, we don t know. we do know that there is a standard way of treating former p.o.w.s and right now they don t follow it even with his stay there in germany. i do want to talk about the treatment that we think he might get. of course, between don t have lot of details on his condition but we do know, marty, is that the hospital there in germany said that bergdahl is free to call his parents and at this point to the best of our knowledge, cnn has been told he has not made that call yet. do we have any sense of what kind of treatment, physical, meetingsal, mental treatment, he will get? what state he will be in when he arrives in san antonio? reporter: there is really three phases that any returning soldier goes through. number one, they come into friendly hands which happened with bergdahl last weekend. then they get stabilized at a regional medical center and that s what ....

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