I am a 25 year old stay-at-home mother/ full time college student working towards an associate in Early Childhood Education. My husband is 22 years old and works full time as a C.N.A. in a nursing home. We have three children ages 4 and under. Evalyn is 4, Berlin is 3, and Joesph is 18 months.
Joe and I have been together since he was a Junior in high school (8years) and have been married for almost 5 years. We have worked very hard to provide our children with a home and were finally able to get out of government housing about 2 years ago when we assumed the loan on my aunt and uncle’s house. We qualified for the Kansas weatherization program last year so our home is warmer then it was last year, but we still worry about being able to pay for heating.
Anyway, we aren’t lazy or freeloaders. We were both working full time and (barely) paying our bills each month until my work said they couldn’t afford to keep me. Instead of looking for another minimum wage job, I enrolled in college. I am making a 3.8 GPA and will graduate in 2010.
Because my husband only makes $9.00/hour, we have been falling behind on all of our bills by about $150 each month. We haven’t been able to make the minimum payments on any of our credit cards (we’ve been thankful to pay our mortgage) and now they have been canceled and turned over to collections. We cant pay the amounts they want us to pay for the payment plans they have offered (which is more than our minimum payments were) and they are adding late fees and over the limit fees each month.
We are now on food stamps, WIC, Medical (for the children), and we qualified for LIEAP, but none of these agencies help pay bills. We were told that because Joe works full time, we cannot qualify for cash assistance. I was so desperate to help pay our bills, that I started filling out online surveys for .50 each. We don’t have money to try any of those crazy on-line schemes.
If you have any real suggestions that can help our family before we end up losing our home and having to return to government housing, we’d really appericiate it! Thanks for your time.

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