That is the way things are often set up, if a person works very hard or many hours and goes above a specified amount for a month, they are penalized. If they live in a facility where they can charged for their cost of care, those wages cannot be used to pay for it; but in the community they may simply fall off the rolls if someone is not watching out for them.
It's a complex system that is reviewed every month like all poverty programs. I find it a hard thing to watch and have to deal with, but it is the way the legislatures, in their not so infinite wisdom, set things up. A guaranteed amount to live on and guaranteed home, would take care of this problem.
I'm not sure of the level of disability we are talking about here and my experience is with people who so disabled that they need constant supervision. And their level of disability is very obvious. Their work does not generate a profit.
But they do work that others not so burdens see as stupid and far below them, but for them it gives them a sense of being 'normal' and of worth. It allows to have a little bit more in life than the small allowance the government allows out of their cost of care.
I see people, emigrants mostly, who are not disabled in any way at all working at the local Goodwill. That seems to be the current model, unskilled, but not what most people think of as disabled. Naturally, not all disabilities are obvious. Many places do not hire disabled people, instead they donate to the places they live at.
At one time, they had disabled people working in the back of the Goodwill, repairing things in another city I lived in. These were the blind and otherwise disabled unable to get 'gainful employment' to survive upon. That was many years ago.
As far as the huge salaries, I have little or no respect for 'non-profits,' having seen too much of this. They are just front men who play the system and the public. Frankly, most people I know who shop at the Goodwill don't know the history of the organization, that it has anything to do with the disabled, they just want to buy something at a low price. And others donate in order to get a ticket to us as a tax deduction.
That's all I know.
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