28 May 2010

The Great Austrian Papertrail Part 2

We are now nearing the final stages of the papertrail. We think.

Benefits are now coming in from the Finanzamt (Inland Revenue) after yet another trip down there to file some obscure document.

After a week, they sent us a confirmation document which I took to the social security people, the GKK, who provide us with child support. That stuff filed, we waited another week after which another document turned up informing us that we are in the system and cash will be paid to us each month.

According to the Finanzamt website, this is what their customer service reps look like. I can assure you, they do not.

Nice. Except that the dates on both the Finanzamt and GKK documents are all a bit screwy. Two months worth of GKK support are missing and the Finanzamt's payments run until next January, even though we were led to believe that the baby qualifies for support until he is 18.

According to one very long winded paragraph on the GKK letter, they are still missing some information but decline to mention what information exactly and what we should do.

Whatever, we're getting there.

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