Please, tell me how “paying for hardware costs is enough”…

  • Azzu@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Doesn’t the Netherlands help you pay for your home if you’re too poor to be able to yourself?

    I’m not saying don’t give anything, just wondering.

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      6 days ago

      I would assume “,being late on rent from mastodon server costs” is not an acceptable reason

      • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Things doesn’t usually work like that.

        Rent subsidiaries work by your annual income and usually the cost of your rent.

        For instance they may pay you 300€ a month for your rent as long as your income is less than 30.000€ a year and your rent is bellow 800€/month. And increasing the thresholds if you have kids or if you are part of a protected collective.

        They may be above these thresholds. It’s pretty common in Europe for people who struggle to meet ends are above the needed thresholds for getting help. As prices have gone really up and the bar for being lower class have change a lot lately as there is a lot of new extremely poor people to help. So money don’t end up being enough for all. And people with normal jobs and who live alone or with their SO usually do not get any help even if they need it.

        The welfare state is kind of falling apart in the latest years.