In Utrecht, residents can use special assistance, an individual income supplement or the U-pass. One of them is Saskia Brandewijn. “I have been on social assistance for about 6.5 years now and I have been volunteering at a client platform for about a year now. In fact, it is only in the last year that I have known that a lot is possible. When you live in isolation like I did in the first year of social assistance, then you don’t experience that.”
Utrecht has many poverty regulations, but not everyone knows where to find them: ‘Difficult when you live so isolated’
