What about your child's father-can he help provide?
Please don't beat yourself up for getting pregnant. Many, many people do not plan it. I am one of them-I got pregnant at 16 and my parents kicked me out of the house. I used WIC and food banks. And waitressed, too.
Is waitressing something you could do to supplement your GI Bill income? Depending on where you live and where you work, you could easily make $100 in 5 hours. I suppose some may not readily hire someone who is pregnant, but the unemployment rate is fairly low right now.
You're not taking away from anyone who uses the food bank. That's what it's for-people who need food. You'd be surprised that many who frequent food banks are better off than you.
Yet another option is to borrow money to help cover your living expenses. I still had to take out loans at when point when I was using my GI Bill and had to stop working full-time to finish school. You don't have to pay them back until after you graduate, and the monthly payments tend to be very low.
A VA social worker could help connect you with services.
Sorry that you are depressed. I am too, so I understand if it feels hopeless. I hope your baby keeps you going. Take care.
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Originally Posted by mkklo
I am not sure this is in the right subforum, but I am depressed so I thought it'd be the right one.
I am almost thirty, no children, I have $4.00 in quarters to my name, no job, no food in my roach-infested apartment, and I am pregnant.
I wouldn't need food stamps for a long time, just a month or two until I get hired somewhere. I apply to different places every week. I am not on unemployment.
I pay all of my bills through my GI Bill-- and when that's done, I have $150-$200 to spend on food, toiletries, and laundry for the month. Sometimes I make it the whole month on that, and other times I don't. This month is an example. I've had about $20 in quarters to live on since the 19th of July. I am now down to $4 in quarters of that! So not too shabby.
My GI Bill, I am so thankful for it because I can have my essentials paid for and go to school. But unfortunately it isn't enough money to live. It isn't supposed to be enough money to live. It's supposed to help pay for tuition. That it does! Thank God!
So, basically I don't understand how it is that because I receive the GI Bill, I don't qualify for food stamps.
I am sorry if I sound really ignorant and entitled. I just don't have very much money, like most college folks. A lot of us are so broke!
I am pregnant and I can't just eat ramen noodles all the time. I know I shouldn't have gotten pregnant. It wasn't planned. I know I should've been more responsible. I should've done better. But I can't change that. I don't know who to call or what to do. I don't have any friends or family here where I live. I don't want to go to a food bank and take away from people who don't even have clean water to drink. Or anything at all. I have clean water. I just have no idea what to do. I just want help with $100 a month in food stamps, that would help me out a lot. It is important that the baby eats well. I am unfit to be a mother. I feel extreme guilt being so senseless and reckless and selfish, becoming pregnant without a way to make sure the baby gets the proper care. I just wish the people who are in charge of the SNAP would understand that.
Can someone help me, not with money, but with some advice on how to help myself and the baby?
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