• liftingup@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Note that the “homeless” people in Finland are mainly people who refuse to accept support from the social welfare, this is because they prefer to get drunk instead of spending it on food and rent. The social welfare eventually suggests a different system for such people: pay the rent for them and give a special card that can be used for anything except alcohol and cigarette. If the people keep refusing that other option, then they went homeless on their own accord and keep spending the welfare on alcohol and living on the streets. Such people are very rare in Finland in reality however, but they do exist.

    • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      If you work part time in Finland, and spend that pay on booze and drugs, can you still collect to social welfare for home and food?