Dusseldorf - On Tuesday Goerdt Vanessa is 20 years old. Will celebrate the Hartz-IV-recipient not. She grieves for her child. A boy.
On Monday she had buried him. Miscarriage in the 5th Month. Stunned, she was when she informed the consortium over the death of her child. Goerdt: "The people wanted only one thing: The money for the worn maternity clothes back."
She had been looking forward to her child. A ray of hope. Even if the father wanted nothing to do with Schwangeschaft and child have to do - for Vanessa Goerdt it was a perspective in a drab life between unemployment, temporary jobs and Hartz IV
No longer be overlooked when her pregnancy was the abdomen was always round, they went to the ARGE (merger of unemployment and welfare benefits).
Goerdt: "That's where I got an allowance for maternity clothes. 190 euros. "Ten days ago the disaster: Your gynecologist could see the baby no more heart sounds.
Goerdt: "I came to the hospital, artificial contractions were initiated. I brought a dead boy in the world. It was terrible. "
Last week Friday they announced that the consortium. Goerdt: "Then an employee told me that the maternity clothes I surely would not need now, and will therefore quickly repay the $ 190 euros. I had tears in his eyes, was completely helpless and ready. "
After a call of the EXPRESS ARGE backpedaled yesterday. Spokesman Jürgen Hennig field: "One misconception. The woman was, after all what they went through, probably in shock, has misunderstood the employee.
Their additional needs of pregnancy, 120 euros a month, is set. The 190 euro will not have to reimburse them. "
Goerdt: "Why should he have said? I have never received additional needs of pregnancy! "
