Lamia of the Dark wrote:How did you end up owing that much?
I don't know what it's like in the USA but here in the Netherlands you get a housing allowance from the government/IRS if you're in a rental home and don't have a very high income. Last year my boyfriend and I could make €29,900 together to get this allowance money. I knew I'd have to pay back everything if I'd make more money than that, so I calculated how much money I would make if I would be working fulltime all year, and it was about the max amount we could make. So, I thought, I'd never be able to make more money than that, seeing as I don't have a steady income as a temp and I don't get paid during Summer break... but I somehow made that much money after all (I think it was about €30,600 even), I don't know how I did it...

and now I have to pay back the housing allowance, and oh yeah, plus my care allowance... which, together, is that much money.
It's my own mistake, I never thought I'd make that much money and I found out too late that I did, but it's still meh
