"Because it's the law"

Three days after the birth, AMS insisted on an answer

Worried: Editor René Denk at home with Barbara Bozek and her children Robin and Lina

(Bild: Molnar Attila/Krone KREATIV)

Barbara Bozek gave birth to little Lina on August 7. Luckily healthy, because the employment service is putting her under a lot of stress. She is one of the mothers in Lower Austria who were suddenly and surprisingly asked to pay back a five-figure sum. "I didn't do anything wrong," she says to "Krone". Read here what she has experienced with the AMS so far.

Krone readers are familiar with the fact that mothers in Lower Austria in particular have suddenly been hit by demands for repayment of their training allowance from the Public Employment Service Austria (AMS) and even had their social insurance cut. The 32-year-old Barbara Bozek was one of the first "victims of this arbitrariness", as the network of affected mothers repeatedly puts it.