Since I opted out of child maintenance because of domestic violence my income support has been reduced to 9.19 a week, although will go up in june when my budgeting loan is paid off.
The woman who interviewed ma bout opting out said that if they didn't accept i had good cause for opting out i would receive another form and be expected to put his details on and if i didn't, they would reduce my money by 20%. However, i never got another chance to give his details, they just reduced my money (by 40% not 20) and i am appealing but don't know how long i will have to wait.
DD1 grabbed my glasses off my face and broke them before i had a chance to take them off her and i had to pay for a new pair as they were beyond repair. The cheapest shop said there would be a weeks wait and i am really bad without them so i went to another shop and paid more money to get them the same day, but they glazed them on th wrong axis and had to send them back so it took a week anyway.
I had had to use my overdraft for them, and i didnt realize i had already used my overdraft so then had to pay a 38 charge for going over my overdraft limit. Direct debits that should have been cancelled weren't, so got another 38 charge for a BT DD that I didn't have money in my account to cover.
Used switch for 4 pounds in iceland and 4 pounds in adams, both on 8th May. The shops took the money out again on 9th May, when there wer not available funds so got charged 70 pounds card misuse.
Yesterday i got paid child tax credit, so today i transferred majority of that 260 pounds to my current account and my balance on my current account is now 33 pounds!
Oh and i ususally get my milk tokens two days before my child tax credit and they haven't arrived yet.