Assistance recovered after shopping at AH | Money

“My mother gives me quite a few groceries a week, two loaves of bread, three bags of lettuce, a box of eight pieces of meat, two boxes of eggs, toilet paper, coffee. I get a bag with groceries once a week, ”the woman told the service, as it emerged in a lawsuit at the Utrecht court.

The messages certainly did not only come from Albert Heijn, she told the Social Services employee. “You say that you were surprised that during the house visit you mainly found substances from Albert Heijn. My mother first goes to Lidl and then she goes to Albert Heijn. My mother is very attentive to the offers. I hardly spend any money on groceries myself. I think a maximum of € 10 per week. I spend almost my entire benefit on fixed costs. ”

She had to repay € 7,040 from the municipality in excess assistance received over the period from 2015 to 2018. The woman complained about this to the court in vain. The court ruled that it must indeed repay this amount, because the groceries were a monetary benefit. Those donations must therefore be deducted from the benefit.

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