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There are big regional variations, with 98% of people in Eastern Europe with disabilities receiving cash benefits and only 8% of people in Africa receiving financial support. The ILO says that only 39% of people worldwide with severe disabilities have effective access to disability benefits. \n\n[1]  [ILO World Social Protection Report 2024-2026](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ilo.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2024-09\u002FWSPR_2024_EN_WEB_1.pdf) p.146","Lack of opportunities, independence and money are problems that people with disabilities have always faced. Today, nearly every country in the world offers at least some financial help to people with disabilities. Benefits can give better access to things like education, public transport and the job market. In all countries these can be improved, but at least some basic recognition of shared responsibility exists in most places.\n\n### Why are so many wrong about this?\nMany take it for granted that most countries are too poor to help all their own citizens. They might also think that many countries are completely dysfunctional, and they hear about corrupt leaders and benefit schemes that don’t reach the beneficiaries. Of course, there are lots of those problems but in reality most countries now have basic institutions to help the vulnerable, which they didn’t have some decades ago.\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nMany people believe that the world is getting worse. That makes them lose their hope that a better world is worth struggling for. If they realize that today people with disabilities are getting better support than ever before, they can probably realize that those benefits can be made even better, instead of thinking that disability is something that others don’t care about.\n\n### Will people think everything is fine now?\nWhen talking about this fact, we need to remember that even though it is much more common with disability benefits than we think, there’s still a long way to go to make sure that people with disabilities get the benefits they need.\n\n### How different is disability support in different countries?\nEighty-four countries base disability payments on financial contributions made through taxes, and that means the benefits may not go to children or people working in the informal sector. So while nearly every country has some disability support written into law, the ILO says only 39% of people worldwide with severe disabilities receive some form of payment.\nThe level of support and how disability is defined varies a lot by country and region. There has been some amazing progress in recent years, with countries such as  Brazil, Chile, Mongolia and Uruguay offering [universal schemes to cover people with disabilities](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.social-protection.org\u002Fgimi\u002Fgess\u002FRessourcePDF.action?ressource.ressourceId=54887).\n\n### How can so many countries care for people with disabilities? \nThe level of support that exists in most countries today is far from perfect, but it would have been unimaginable 100 years ago, when disabilities were not recognized in the same way and countries weren’t wealthy enough to support their citizens.\n"," A more supportive world","You thought most countries don’t try to help their most vulnerable citizens, but they do.\n"]