I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not to the children, not to the household or life in general, and certainly not to myself. — Lisbeth C., a 43-year-old working single mother of three sons living in a rural town in Saxony, February 10, 2023 I’m a pensioner, and the support from the government simply isn’t enough. Life is expensive.