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Please help me move

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Hi everyone! I can't believe I'm at a point that I have to do this but I am, unfortunately.

My name is Monique and I'm looking forward to moving into a new townhouse within the next month. This is an exciting time for me because after 2 years of searching, countless applications fees and denials someone finally approved me. I have excellent credit no bankruptcies or evictions the reason for my denials is I have a Housing Choice Voucher. I have been discriminated due to the stereotype of Section 8 people have a lot of children and they will destroy your home. I wanted to move to provide my seven year old autistic son with a better education and better treatment. I had everything in order I build my credit up, I had money saved to move, furnished my new home. I even found autistic treatment center to enroll him in, they only took Blue Cross Blue Shield so I paid out of pocket $565 a month just so he could go there. I paid out of pocket for his diagnosis everything. So feeling hopeful I said I will keep paying and someone will eventually say yes but nothing. I even paid cash for a truck so we will have transportation when we move because I will still need to go and help out my disabled mother. I had multiple agents working on my case month's passed nothing. Then my mother had emergency heart surgery, I helped her with getting things she needed for her recovery, my aunt passed I helped with her services plus I still had my regular expenses. Things suddenly went from bad to worse we started getting floods, I'm extreme couponer I had to rent a dumpster and throw away a lot of my products. Then the unthinkable happened I got a call on July 24th it was from my father's girlfriend she said my dad had stage 4 throat cancer he had cancer before and I thought it was gone I spoke to him on Father's Day and he was talking about going out now he couldn't talk. His girlfriend said they didn't give him no time frame or anything so I made plans to go down there Friday. Then Wednesday he died. So now with everything else going on I had to plan a funeral, I have 2 other sisters but we're not close. His girlfriend told me he had insurance so I said I will use my move money and just deal with the insurance later she and others insisted that he had insurance and my name was on there so I'm thinking okay it's safe I will get my money back. Fast forward about a week I found out he had multiple policies but they were only accidental death insurance and his girlfriend was a drug addict who drained his bank account while he laid there dying. I then found out he had a 401k so I contacted them they told me it was in one of my sisters name, so I told her how to go about it to get she's like we can use this for the funeral I'm like okay I can get some of my money back only to be told they didn't give her the full amount which I think was a lie I'm guessing she was like this my money it's in my name I don't have to give her nothing. So now I'm here I have been scammed, lied to used the whole nine. I have been seeking rental assistance but so many places are out of funding currently. I'm behind on a couple of bills plus I don't have any money to move plus buy furniture. So now along with struggling with my own mental health, - and also taking care of my 7 year old son, trying to find an autistic school that takes medicaid plus trying to just handle life and other bills and responsibilities in general. It's gotten to be too much at times for this single mom. I keep trying to stay encouraged and motivated with my faith in God but at times I just feel so hopeless. There are days that I am mad at myself and days that I feel like such a failure and days that I'm more positive and try to keep a good outlook that things will get better.

Anyone that knows me know that I hate asking for help, but I'm just so overwhelmed at this point, I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. If you have anything you could donate to help out, I would greatly appreciate it.

This past year and a half has been very difficult for me and I've kept most of what I've been struggling with private. I'm at a point where I'm just overwhelmed and scared and confused on how to fix my life back to being manageable again and not stressing every day how I'm going to pay for something. I'm trying to take care of myself, my son the best I can. I would like to move get my son the right therapy so I can get myself right financially and get a peace of mind.

I hate to ask for help, but I would greatly appreciate anything you can do to help us. Thank you so very much for your kindness.
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  • Katherine Murnen
    • $10 
    • 6 mos
  • Shauen Tokuyama
    • $25 
    • 6 mos
  • Barbara Baer
    • $10 
    • 6 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $5 
    • 6 mos
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Riverdale, IL

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