Bear with me on this one.
We live abroad so different tax system etc obviously. shortly after we moved here, we employed a nanny. we wanted to pay all the relevant taxes etc, but it was all a bit complicated and we didn't know the system. So we employed an accountant to sort it out for us. He filed our tax return, told us what we owed and we paid the relevant taxes.
18 months later, we just found out he didn't tell us we needed to flll out one more form for this thing called unemployment insurance for her. We would have paid the equivalent of about 300 pounds in another tax and then after leaving the job she would have been able to claim unemployment benefit for 6 months (equivalent of about 4000 pounds total). But we didn't fill it out because we didn't know about it, so now she can't claim until it's all sorted out, which could take weeks. I have now filled out all the right forms and paid the taxes. But what do we owe her? Legally apparently nothing, but morally?? What would you do? Loan her money? Give her money? How much?? (I know if we loan her money we are almost certainly never going to see it again) I feel horrified that this has happened....WWYD?