The Defender received a complaint with request for help from a complainant who upon his 18th birthday left a children’s home and found his own housing. With respect to his studies he had applied for benefits of assistance in material need. The Labour Office of the Czech Republic, regional branch for the Capital City of Prague (the “labour office”) had called on him to submit a confirmation of the children’s home that he could no longer stay in the children’s home. On grounds of the complainant's leaving the children’s home, the labour office had withdrawn the child benefit.