Translation of Dutch blog Free at last
Today I leave seven years of welfare (as an additional loan) behind me, and four months after my 66th birthday I have been officially appointed as a State-recognized Old Man (SOM) with the associated lifelong monthly sum of money, which I can keep fully for myself and for which I am not accountable to any municipal official. Over the past seven years, with a bit of work, quite a bit of hassle and a bit of borrowing, and a lot of rules, a slow civil servant's learning curve and a tense but finally won lawsuit to keep the government by the law, I got through just fine. I'll continue to hassle, but I am happy: free at last.
As I am writing this, at exactly midnight on the corner of my street there is a very loud banging ornamental fireworks. My law abiding citizen's heart admonishes me to inform the police, but then I realize that this may well be a surprise fireworks show organized by the municipality to say goodbye to another citizen less on welfare. Thank you municipality, thank you social service Werk en Inkomen Lekstroom (WIL), thank you fellow citizens. Free at last.
As I am writing this, at exactly midnight on the corner of my street there is a very loud banging ornamental fireworks. My law abiding citizen's heart admonishes me to inform the police, but then I realize that this may well be a surprise fireworks show organized by the municipality to say goodbye to another citizen less on welfare. Thank you municipality, thank you social service Werk en Inkomen Lekstroom (WIL), thank you fellow citizens. Free at last.
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