New antics in Greece

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Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
The Labor Ministry said categories added to the expanded list — that also includes pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists and sadomasochists — were included for purposes of medical assessment and used as a gauge for allocating financial assistance.
The National Confederation of Disabled People called the action "incomprehensible," and said pedophiles are now awarded a higher government disability pay than some people who have received organ transplants.
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NCDP leader Yiannis Vardakastanis, who is blind, warned the new list could create new difficulties for disabled Greeks who are already facing benefit cuts due to the country's financial crisis.
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"It's really not serious to grant Peeping Toms a 20-30 percent disability rate, and 10 percent to diabetics, who have insulin shots four or five times a day," said Vardakastanis.

Full story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/furor-greece-pedophilia-disability-15323309

Can any of our resident Greeks advise what sort of fetish would bring me largest disability pay, were I a Greek citizen?
 
It is not the pedophiles, but the BRITISH ISLES...

Well, on a serious note, i have not come across this bit of news at all- not very surprising though since i do not watch tv since last year. I am not sure if it is blown out of proportion therefore, but sounds like it.
 
I am not sure if its the highest payout, but burning things for money sounds like the most fun. Well, maybe seeing what shop security I can circumvent is...

SO MANY CHOICES!!!
 
Is this just a cash payout, or one for specific things, like Depo-Provera?
Because I am all for buying drugs to keep pedophiles from getting horny.
 
Well, I can understand the kleptomania one. If you're going to accept mental illness as a disability, having a condition which compels you to steal from everyone who might hire you qualifies as a work-force disability.
 
What Park and contre said, I think.
 
Insightful.
 
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