SUMMARY - Policy Blind Spots
A disability benefits program requires applicants to demonstrate inability to work, but the definition of work assumes a single job with regular hours, leaving a woman who can work some hours some days but not predictably unable to prove she is disabled enough to qualify yet unable to work enough to survive, the policy having imagined disability as binary when her experience is fluctuating, the blind spot in the definition rendering her situation invisible to a system that can only see what its categories allow.