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I desperately need help with rent arrears and bills.
YaYa15, UK
Please help if you are able to.
Since 1999 I have been physically disabled following a head-on collision with another driver who had lost control of their vehicle. Almost immediately I lost my own home as I was unable to work and have had to find private rented accommodation which is very expensive and the small amount of Social Welfare I receive towards housing and living expenses has fallen far behind inflation and now is not enough to cover rent and bills.
Over the following years I have completely lost all my confidence. There have been many incidents of bullying and harassment from both Landlords and other people. As result I now suffer from severe panic attacks, a racing heart and bouts of violent shaking. One by one my friends are gone and most of the time my only company has been my dog and my beloved horse who was abandoned by gypsies 2 years ago as a youngster, and I have tried to care for as well as I possibly can given my own circumstances. He gave me a confidence that I no longer have with people.
On the 3rd of November I found him dying in the field and immediately called a vet. It was a Sunday and the cost of a vet is double on that day as a duty vet has to attend. Despite us fighting to save his life he died an agonising death an hour later. He had died from a rare poisoning after eating Sycamore seeds. He was still just a baby.
The grief is immense and now the bills are arriving.The vet bill is huge and another bill for the equine bereavement company used to remove his body from the field and to cremate.
I am already in arrears with my rent and being threatened with eviction by my Landlord, so there is no way I will ever be able to pay these bills.
I am happy to prove my circumstances and show bills if required. Please help if you are able to.
Thankyou for reading.
im afraid
I need to leave Violent contro, Uk
I have been with this man for 2 years in the past 18 months he has hit me on a weekly basis he keeps all the money, wont let me work and has cut my ties to family and friends I need your help to be financialy secure enough to be able to get away any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. Tanya
I really need help,like yesterday
So here goes the only thing I have left, my pride. In the last 6 Mon ths I have lost everything.
I am hoping just one person out there will give me a break.
My story
8 months ago my life was good, not perfect but good. 3 wonderful children, a home, a partner,a full time job, a car and my health. I have none now.
I had to flee my home with my children due to domestic violence, because I wad employed I found little help, I worked but we managed by living month to month. So had no savings. We stayed with my mum who I am nit overly close too but us a good lady who is 53 and worked here whole life. 3 week's after this I lost my job in sales due the amount of time I have had off due to physical bruising. I lost my car as it was a company car, after a month my mum told us we needed leave as she couldn't afford to keep us finanicaly, I understood and already had contacted Bristol city housing about emergency moving they Saud that they would award me a bond scheme and pay my first months rent to a private landlord. Twice I found somewhere, twice the landlord backed out due to the Council raking too long. After I was made unemploymeed The council decided to award me band 3 homelessness....they deactivated my home choice bidding until I could prove I was in receipt of benefits, I wasn't entitled to benefits until work had paid all my sick pay.
To help speed up the process . Stayed in a refuage separated from my teenage sins because it was for women only.
This was supposed to be for 6 weeks only and then after we would all be put in a family hostel.
6 weeks came and went I had a case worker from northern arc assigned to help me with coming to terms with everything. She is honestly fantastic. But can only do so much. I left the refuge and me and the children went to stay at tmwith a friend in her 2 bedroom flat which alread. Housed her and her son, this should of moved us to band 2 at housing as we were overcrowded, the stress of everything was becoming to much and when the council turned down the banding award and Sau. It would be based on my original application for fleeing domestic violence and I would ve in this situation for possibly months or stay in a bed and breakfast by this time I was diagnosed with depression and seeing Bristol intensive mental health team every day.
I tried to apply for jobs, having Been a retail manager for 12 years, I didn't think it would be that hard, but I needed to get me back, I needed to be brave for the children, the debts started mounting not much but enough to worry about, and I was hospitalized with ill health pericarditis... All this proved to ve to much for my eldest son and 3 weeks ago he took a 60 paracetamol overdose with a bottle of vodka. I was devastated, I'd let him down.
Luckily my sob pulled through,I was still in contact with the council and told them about this I begged practically for a home. In the end I wad reffered to shelter for legal support, they too have also been so good in dealing with the council.
For my childrens safety I sent them back with family members I thought somewhere safe and grounded would make them feel better. I was reffered to a crisis centre to help in handling my mental stress.
Still fighting Bristol city council 7 months on, still without a home, my children now have to stay separately, I am away from them, and all I want is a home somewhere.
So I have used the last thing I have my pride to beg maybe you, maybe someone, maybe a group of people for help? Financial help. For what? I'm being honest...£1150 of debt that has amountted, I can apply for grants to help with a house when we finally get one, but as December 1st is 2 day's away I am beginning to panic even more, we don't need a great Christmas, but the kids do need something, just for war they have been through, I have also tried applying for loans, you need a guarantor, payday loans offer no more than a couple of hundred and none of my Amazing family are in the position to help. So I am asking if you can please just help me....I am doing all I can for myself I have logged complaint after complaint and contacted my local m.p, I have daily updates with shelter and I will fight this all the way, but please would you be so kind just to help us for now £4000 is wat I am looking for, cover debts, private rent and a few things for the house, the rest on the kids for Christmas. I know I am a stranger to you and you my think why should I?? Because I mean this when I say it, you will save my life literally, I have thought about it but I can't let those kids down. But I can't let them see that the one person who should protect them from everything is the one person who cannot provide for them. Please I beg let me have my family back and a home and just let us he together for Christmas. I can provide u evidence if you wish I honestly don't mind! I am just grateful for the help. Please contact me if you need to know more
TRAVEL
NEEDING TO GET HOME, SOUTH CAROLINA
HELLO I AM A SINGLE MOTHER OF THREE AND CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED. I AM LIVING IN SOUTH CAROLINA RIGHT NOW WITH NO FAMILY AND NEWLY SEPARATED. I NEED TO GET BACK HOME TO WASHINGTON STATE WHERE I HAVE FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO CAN HELP ME GET BACK ON MY FEET. I AM IN NEED OF $1080 FOR FOUR TICKETS EACH TICKET BEING $270. I AM VERY DESPERATE AND NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS AND GOD BLESS.
Little help I need
Hello there, I'm a 26 years old man living in Hungary, one of the worst countries to live in this world. I work as a security guard and make about 2,1$ / hour. That's right, 2,1$ / hour! Ridiculous, isn't it? I've been treated with social anxiety, but I think I still have some mental issues, maybe a personality disorder or something like that. I don't like this job, the work time is very long and you have almost no free time! I've been in college, but I think my mental problems were the reasons why I couldn't finish it. I live with my morther, my grandma and my mother's boyfriend who is a really bad person. I can't move to another apartment with that wage I got! I should look for another job, but I have a feeling that this is the only type of job I'm able to do, because of my mental problems! And getting a job in this place is near impossible, this country sucks man. Oh, and I have about 5400$ in debt, student loan. But I'm not really worry about that, because I have to pay only 27$/month, but still. So, I'm not asking for a fortune, I just need a little help, I would like to move out and get treatment for my mental issues. I feel my current situation is about 20% my fault, the cirumstances did 80% on this! If you have it better, please help me a little bit! Thanks for reading and have a nice day!
