Welfare Recipient Requests Reimbursement for Lenses, but Does Not Receive the Money He Hopes For

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He needed new contact lenses, but there was one problem: he couldn't afford them himself because he was on welfare. So he asked the Drechtsteden regional social services department to help out. They had bad news for him: they wouldn't pay more than a third of the three hundred euros he'd borrowed shortly before. It led to a lawsuit.