They have plenty of room to maneuver, like actually. My wife had her disability benefits slashed by one idiot so we had to sue otherwise we would have had really big financial trouble. Turns out she wasn't even getting all that was her due before the slashing. It's all interpretation of law, that's needlessly complex to give that wiggle room since bureaucrats aren't lawyers some will interpret it this way, some another way and most people aren't going to sue over 50 bucks a month extra when there is so much other stuff you need to keep track of. Because maybe you aren't even sure if you are correct assuming that's your right, because bureaucrats are notoriously dismissive, belittling and condescending and because going to court is a daunting task and maybe you don't even have the resources to do that because it costs money, it costs time, it costs energy that has to come out of some other aspects of the claimants life. And if you don't have enough of any one of the three they get away with it. Not to mention most of the time people don't even know their rights, so a right wing bureaucrat can in reality do quite some harm because they're not getting sued. Also if they are, it's not them personally but the department and they can just claim to have misunderstood some law or directive or whatever and carry on with their work (albeit more stealthily). This happens so often, especially with foreigners, that one can safely assume that almost every non-native speaker had their rights violated by some bureaucrat at some point and did nothing about it. ACAB includes bureaucrats. ACAB includes every representative of a bourgeois state.