Tali Gottlieb Cries Out in Pain: "This Is Not Income, These Are the Lives of My Daughter"
MK Tali Gottlieb launched a harsh attack against Tzviya Cohen, the acting director of the National Insurance Institute, after she defined allowances for autistic children as "income" • Gottlieb, mother to an autistic daughter, shared…
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A personal and political clash has erupted over how the state labels disability benefits. Member of Knesset Tali Gottlieb, herself the mother of an autistic child, is challenging the National Insurance Institute's acting director for using the term income to describe stipends for autistic children. The fight is about framing: whether these payments are a lifeline for daily struggles or a bureaucratic line item. Watch for whether this forces a policy or language change at the agency.