I'll never forget the one time I probably saved a thousand euros because I took care to archive a PDF.

I asked to register to housing aids in France, and at the end of the process, they gave me a PDF receipt of my demand.

But somehow, my registration had been glitched and it was never processed. After months of waiting, I called them, and they said they had no data from me. But I told them I had the receipt, which baffled them.

In the end, I sent them the receipt by mail and asked for them to do something. At this point, half a year had gone by since I first applied. Another few months later, they eventually completed my registration.

And get this: your aids are calculated from the moment you put your registration in, no matter how long it takes them to process it. They retroactively credited me with over a thousand euros of aids for all the many months of waiting.

Supposedly this was done manually, and thanks to my receipts, since they somehow completely lost my registration. If I hadn't archived the PDF, they might have told me to register again, and I would have lost like half a year of benefits.
@iro_miya Seems sensible to keep all your gov receipts, yeah. Never know when that rackshamble system is gonna make you fall through the cracks.
Good on ya. ā™„ļø
@iro_miya this is great job ​​

@iro_miya I always print anything that requires me to exchange large sums of money

Plane tickets, hotel bookings, etc

So far no interactions with of the social welfare system, but you bet I’m printing that out too