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    guttered.

    we left Germany 18 months ago. we told everyone we needed to and deregistered.

    except we kept getting payments for the kids. we emailed, called and wrote letters telling them we had left and were told by another department its normal for us to keep getting money.

    every month, 360euro into our account.

    now, 18 months later they are like, oh, actually you owe us 6500 euro now.

    worst part.. we just got a huge tax refund from Australia .. so in the space of 3 days had $10k come into the account and then go straight back out.. without us doing anything wrong.

    so wrong.

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    • did you spend the money you knew wasn't yours or just stash it for when they asked for it back?hans_glib
    • we were told by at least 3 different departments that because our kids were German and my wife is German, they are entitled to that moneyautoflavour
    • If you have that in writing then you shouldn’t have to give it back.monospaced
    • problem is that the actual department we needed to speak with is a 1800 number available only within Germany, and all our emails and snail went unanswered ..autoflavour
    • the first 3000 I brought back with me last year and the other we had planned on using to cover the 3 week holiday we are currently on. so instead of havingautoflavour
    • left over after the holiday, we are now in the hole... if it wasn't for the unexpected tax refunds, we would have be fucked. but still its $10000 goneautoflavour
    • the ineptitude of German bureaucracy never fails to amaze me.. how can a system continue to pay so muchautoflavour
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