I'll keep this short since I plan to do a long-form on this topic.

I've spent the day with my Mum because she called me in the morning crying to let me know that social services has refused to pay the €600 back payment on her 2024 utility bills. for those who don't know, in Germany you pay a fixed amount on your utilities including heating, garbage etc estimated on your consumption of the previous year.

Since water, electricity, garbage, landlords home insurances and co have gone up 100-200% (depending on the utility) she's been hit with over €600. Social has now decided to give her €124 stating on the letter that she needs to manage her utility consumption better. The atrocity of this is out of this world.

Our elders, those who've paid their dues all their life, those who've rebuild this country are literally being abandoned while others who come to this country get full dentals, full payment of rents, deposits, utilities, back payments FFS they even get money to buy a fucking car.

So I spent the day comforting my mother and I'm going on Monday to file an official complaint at social services while pressing charges with the social court at the same time.

We're getting to a point where the actions of the government and their treatment of our elders is unacceptable.