I desperately need some advice because I have no idea what I'm meant to do or how . I've been single since I was 5 months pregnant and my ds is now 6 months I'm coming up to the 3 months unpaid maternity leave and I'm having nothing but problems money wise. I was really responsible during my pregnancy and saved enough money for deposit on a house and months rent in advance, with enough left to cover me for the 3 months I won't be getting paid and to cover travel/childcare costs when I go back to work until I get paid. I moved into my new house which in summer and since then it's been 1 problem after another. Housing benefit didn't sort out my claim for a month and when they finally did they only sent me a cheque for half the money and so I covered the rest of the rent out of my smp and savings thinking they'd sort it out but they haven't it's happened every month and now I have no savings left at all, this month I had to use my 80% of my smp to cover the rest of the rent and I'm sat here wondering how the hell I'm gonna cope for 3 months with nothing. Ds's father gives me money for him each month which just about covers what he needs. I can't go back to work early as they have covered me, I have no childcare and no family to help out. I can't get childcare near my work (I work 2 hours away) local nurseries don't open early enough and close too early to cover the hours if need to work to afford the childcare. I suffer from depression and anxiety anyway and the thought of leaving him makes everything so much worse I don't know what to do and I have no rl support it's just me and ds. Any advice would be great even if it's telling me to suck it up and get on with it
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