Thread:Hitsuji Mamoru/@comment-28209369-20170731190723/@comment-28209369-20170816085949

Well my occupation is a starving student - emphasis on the starving right now - so I don't exactly have a job. The money I was waiting for was from Kela, or how it's apparently called in english according to wikipedia, The Social Insurance Institution. Short explanation, it's the place that pays things such as student allowances and where you can plead for income support.

The money I was waiting for was monetary support for sick leave, which I have been on for about half a year now due to reasons requiring therapy. It was the same pay I had been receiving from them for this half a year, so it shouldn't have taken so long for them to reach a decision to pay it to me this time by any means.

On top of that, before this I had been constantly receiving 25% less than I was promised and recently found out it was from taxation. When I called in about that.about two months ago I found out that my taxation percentage should have been a round 0 from the start due to my low income - that is to say I have none - and it got rechecked. So this pay should have been the first one to have no taxation taken from it and it should have been the full promised sum.

Well, as I've been writing this, I just found out what it is that took so much from the sum. And I still require answers and explanations. Because apparently it was Kela collecting back what they had paid me in income support last month when I had to plead for it because they were taking so long with this one. And let me just say that they themselves have said that it's safe to always plead for income support because it doesn't affect any other pay even if it is given to me, as it is simply meant to support living. I have gotten income support before and this is the first time ever that they have collected it back and it's not like my poor monetary situation has changed for the better all of a sudden.

TL;DR:

Kela is a nice little thing we have in Finland because it offers monetary support for many in need, but it's still despised nationwide because they pull bullcrap like this - and it's getting more ridiculous by the day...

As for the expenses listed, I paid my rent, customs and even the loan I have taken. But I'm down to 10€ for the rest of the month so it's gonna be tough... And forces me to plead for income support again, hoping that they don't collect it back this time...