Sorry for long post! Due to a chain of unfortunate events and unforeseen circumstances, I ended up from living pretty regularly to Sozialhilfe. Before that, someone hit my parked car. After a legal dispute, I won the case and am now owed around CHF 30,000, but payments haven’t started yet. In the meantime, I had to pay my lawyer without having the money available, since the court argued that I would eventually receive the compensation. I borrowed the money from my mother. Last month, a friend repaid a loan I had given him before any of this happened, and I passed that money directly to my mother to meet my obligations as she also needs it. Sozialhilfe counted that repayment as income and therefore did not provide support this month and refuse to see it any other way. After covering rent and bills, I am now about CHF -900 on my bank account. I will start a job at the end of this month, which should resolve the situation, but right now I have almost no money left and very limited food (mostly pasta and rice). My question is: how can I get through the rest of the month without only eating salted rice and pasta? I currently have €75 and plan to shop at Lidl in Germany, as I have a GA. submitted by /u/edelweiss_ch
Originally posted by u/edelweiss_ch on r/Switzerland