Hello out there and ty for listening..
I am a single mother of 2 children, I am disabled and on SSI, getting almost 700.00 a month. My rent is 550.00. I have gotten behind on my electric bill and now it has been shut off. I have gone to the local Social Services office and they said they can not help because, my heat is included in my rent and they wont help with electric unless it runs the furance and mine does not. I know its my fault. Its very hard to stretch less then 150.00 a month for everything that needs to be bought. And I have neglected the electric bill for things like TP, soap,etc.. I don't have a phone or cable tv, or internet.. Sometimes I can use a friends or the library.. Its a very hard life... but I don't complain...
My daughter has to go to school in the morning without a shower, there is nothing I can do about that. We also wash our clothes by hand as the washer doesn't work.. and now we have no hot water and no way to dry them... So no clean clothes.... I don't drive.. I can't.. so I take the public bus to the closest town which is 30 mins away. I wash our clothes by hand at home because I can't bring laundry on the bus. The food in my frig will go bad, and there is no way to cook.....
I don't have any close friends or relatives that I can ask to borrow money from.. I just don't know what to do. If I use all of the 0.00 I have left from my SSI after I pay the rent in May... it will still take months to pay off the back electric bill.
I just don't know where to turn. If anyone has any suggestions on places that will help me pay my electric bill, or anyone who can help me.... please let me know.. Its horriable living with no electric and being in the dark..
