Thread by @tanjamaier17

A mom just wrote me that for some reason (trying to establish) her payments were taken away this month, she only received €145 for her daughter, who just started 1st grade and they cannot afford the list of school supplies. In theory there should be help for them. In practice…

This is Tirol! They told her there are no coupons. And the only help will be once she receives a document from the school that the child is actually attending. They took her payments away because mom got a job cleaning earning €200 with two kids 😢. So work = she now lost money.

She also has a kindergartner. Can we please send this poor woman some vouchers? She is doing everything right trying to work and is being punished by the insane system called Grundversorgung and the horrible folks who execute such decisions.

Update: a kind reader will send a little money.

More details: mom was told, correctly, that she can legally earn while in GVS €110 plus €80 for each child = €270. So she cleaned an office 4 hours a week for €207 total.

The authorities in Tirol took away mom's €260!

So basically she worked 16 hours and lost money. Even though she did everything to the letter of the law. Now she runs from office to office of all the charities and state organizations (you know their names), and no one helps. But now a school list, need backpack, feed kids...

Her husband is in Ukraine. She is here alone in Schwaz with 2 little kids. She is now twice a refugee; she fled Donestk to Kyiv in 2014. "They already tried to free me two times," she says, referring to the Russians.

I apologize on behalf of Austria and promise to try to help.

This is Nastya. Mom would like to send her as they say in Russian "first time in first grade" on Monday with school supplies. I have a mailing address and the town has a Libro. My DM are open if you would like to help with school supplies. I am so sadden by this story.

One of my readers (who has generously helped many others, too) sent mom some money to she can get ready for the first day of school. Mom checks her bank account balance as she runs to German class! She is so very grateful.

We are not a replacement for government/NGO failure.

THREE readers helped. Thank you. Should be more than enough now. But imagine how many Nastya’s are out there, with moms like hers, working so hard, alone, with little kids, and hitting glass door after glass door.

Last one I promise! Mom says she now has enough money to buy Nikita a lunch box and slippers for kindergarten. Super grateful.

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