{"id":83063,"date":"2026-01-02T20:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83063"},"modified":"2026-01-02T20:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T20:04:51","slug":"man-fakes-complete-blindness-for-over-50-years-to-collect-disability-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/man-fakes-complete-blindness-for-over-50-years-to-collect-disability-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Fakes Complete Blindness for Over 50 Years to Collect Disability Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse4.mm.bing.net\/th\/id\/OIP.4vlfetU1SGViTc0CZSWICwHaEJ?rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain&amp;o=7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"Italian Man Fakes Blindness for 53 Years to Claim \u20ac1 Million in Benefits\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 70-year-old Italian man stands accused of pretending to be totally blind for over a century, during which time he collected over one million euros ($1.16 million) in disability payments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odditycentral.com\/news\/man-fakes-complete-blindness-for-over-50-years-to-collect-disability-payments.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; A 70-year-old Italian man stands accused of pretending to be totally blind for over a century, during which time he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Italian-Fake-Blindness.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83065,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83063\/revisions\/83065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}