I'd been feeling rotten but was slowly starting to pick myself up. However today I came home to a letter from the council telling me my help with housing costs have been reduced from £240 a month to £8. I'd been doing some overtime and so now it's been decided that because I've earned just over the threshold it's been reduced to almost nothing.

I literally have no idea what I can do. I understand the reasoning behind it and there are rules etc but I'm going to be left with nothing left at the end of a month with a 7yo who is growing way too fast and needs a computer for school which I don't have.

I've been sat in the kitchen for half an hour almost in a state of shock. I feel like I want to cry but nothing will come out. How am I going to manage on my own with no family to help? Childcare is so expensive in the holidays and they get 13 weeks off a year and I get 5.

I feel I'm back to square one. I just don't know how to cope with everything. It's a huge mess and I'm not mentally strong enough to deal with it right now.

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