Relatives Exploit People with Disabilities: Convince Them to Borrow and Buy Phones and Tablets

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Some people with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities are in debt because they cannot pay their bills to telecommunications operators, case managers say. According to them, residents are taken advantage of by relatives. They take them to a telecommunications company and convince them to buy a phone or tablet in installments, but later they take the device and the resident, unable to pay, finds himself in debt. Telecommunications operators s…