It's almost hard to believe.
We have very very few homeless in Sweden compared to the US (we have maybe 1 where you have 1k), those who are have a heavy addiction of sorts and it's gone way way past normal..
Minimum wage is they pay your rent and $500 to live on basically, ANYONE can get this (unless you have a job). If you have kids you get more - I can live on it and so can anyone else. But some people waste money on trivial stuff that's 10-20% of this months income and then have the stomach to complain about "poor me not getting enough money", or spend-it-all-here at the same time on heroin or w/e - that's the group that is homeless.
All you have to do for this money is show your bank statement of the month (to prove that there is no transactions going into the account, insanely easy to pass by), and turn in your bills so they can make copies and after that you get payed those costs. Does not include your internet connection, and you have to live poor but it is more than possible to survive it if you don't drug yourself for the money (basically). You can even get money if you live with your parents ($350 roughly).
You aren't normal - you get more!I have high functioning autism (or whatever the fuck it's called in the US - it basically means I have high/difference intelligence and I don't really suffer from it except when I am trying to sleep), and wow I get benifits from that appareantly... Been depressed (many autistic people are) for a long time and not in a state to work so I now get $1.1k a month for doing almost nothing (going to rehab (drugs) when a date for the home comes along but untill then I have nothing I need to do (long term sick), one more call about my current living state and then some waiting time for this. So now I get even more money by doing nothing (it's a good thing at heart though - depression is not easy to handle and getting a job here is hard) but I mean wtf, I know how to live without much money (from minumum wage and my childhood), single and $1k is well more than fine
The downside is that now I can not work for a year which is pretty fucked up because how to get out of a depression? You break your habbits, routine work - whatever it's their rules and I get free money.
After that year I can try working if I want to basically (which I do - been without a job for over 6 years and it's not fun) and thanks to my Autism the government can pay 70% (I think it's 70, could be 10 off) of my salary.. It's not a thing the state like to flag with but afaik I know it's real, you just gotta get up in their face over it.
Got a diagnosis in Sweden? Follow me (you can PM me for more info), why not use our rights we have but are kept very silent.
REHABS FOR FREE! Honestly it's like vacation from the drugging for many.Adding another big welfare-hole; the free drug/gambling disorder/whatever rehab system we have with a 90+% failure rate (people relapse and fast, it depends on how long you are there but I heard 40 days = 98% relapse, 12 step model with drugs).
I counted how much my last visit cost the government and it ended up at nearly
$50k for 4 months, I was there with 10 people constantly, then 50-60 came and went some stayed and tried but when detox was done and no more pills served some got out - those people get chance after chance but do the same thing.
Others tried for a month or two, but sadly I only know 2 for sure who are clean and sober (alcohol top 5 drug when it comes to damages on body and brain) up untill this day (one of them I used to do drugs with so happy for him!). The cost is ~300 dollar per night but differs from home to home and individual to individual (jail candidates can get rehab if their crimes have been drug related all along the way, they cost more).
This is one rehab out of I don't know how many but we've got many rehabs in Sweden (but it's a lot, owning one brings you cash if you do it right), but do the math on those numbers and you get another fat cost for the state.
