I’m an almost 30 year old mom of two and currently 30 weeks pregnant, going back to school. I had to take off work with no pay already because of how hard my pregnancy is and how often I have to be at school as I’m in a program an hour and a half out of town and it’s five days a week while I’m juggling being a full time mom to two kids. I had it planned out, I was going to take out a big enough student loan to help my husband make ends meet and my child support goes towards my kids school lunches, book fairs, new shoes/jackets etc. I don’t spend a dime of their child support on anything except directly on them. Well my child support has been so messed up lately and every time I call the dispersement center, they say “it’s just delayed” well this is the fifth consecutive week I haven’t gotten any child support and for a whole year before this it’s been coming in like one check a month while the others are supposedly backed up. So I’m really low on money and my husband hurt himself at work and is supposed to be getting paid every week while he’s off, and he just got news that they messed up his FMLA and he won’t be getting pay for a few weeks. I was also supposed to receive my student loan (that had been pending this entire semester so I’ve been depending on my husbands paycheck for gas to get to school) and I check my account and nothing. I call the school asking why I haven’t gotten it and they tell me since I didn’t get it today I should get it November 18. Are you kidding me? I have $13 in my account. I feel so discouraged about going back to school now because it’s just screwing over my family and putting us in tight spots. I’m so aggravated with the student loan process and the child support process. I’m going to see about going back to work on the weekends which has me so stressed out because I have been having such a physically difficult pregnancy and I know I’ll be in pain all day long plus it really is gonna put a damper on my studying time I get for class because I mostly study for tests on weekends. It’s sad that you need 2 incomes plus a side hustle to pretty much make it these days.