Hello all
I' was going to write an AH but I need to check first if you have the same thing in your countries (and if you don't, is there something more or less equivalent).
It's called "pupille de la nation" (in French, working for Switzerland and Belgium too).
The idea is (law from 1917 modified in 1990 and 1993): if one of your parents dies (or is severely disabled) "for the country" (it's a wide definition: first it was only during a war but it works for the army, military police, police, magistrates, prison officers, customs officers, doctors killed by patients, victims of terrorism... ) then you get some specific advantages in recognition:
- free counseling (for life)
- complete and unlimited scholarship (or subsidy if you want to create your own company before 21yo)
- free unlimited health insurance
- "as much as needed " subsidy for food, clothes, entertainment, child card.
- specific subsidy for holidays
- subsidy to help you to find your first job
- subsidy if you need adult education
- interest free loans if you want to create your company
- specific advantages to become a public servant
- specific tax discount if the donee is the pupille
The idea is that the "country" has to replace any help your parents could have provided.
So, do you have more or less the same thing?