[mom-from-missouri]

I can tell you the goverment does NOT always pay for a single moms schooling and daycare. I was turned down for any assistance--because I make too much. Yet, it is not enough to also cover tution and additional daycare for night class on top of the regular bills of the household and expenses naturally occured while raising my daughters. I cant go to day class because of work. So, moms like Jacqualinerose and I who are trying to work, end up getting penalized for it. If we were bums, didnt work and only collected our welfare, then our tution would be covered. Seems to me they should help those who want to better themselves, but thats not what I see happening. When i had to miss almost 6 weeks of work to care for my ill daughter and be with her while she was in the hospital, I was rejected for most aide, because of my income for LAST YEAR. Yes I did good last year, but I socked it into my housepayments, so I didn't have a big enough nestegg. I guess you have to be broke a year to get assistance in buying food or gas money to get back and forth to doctor appointments...that way when they look at your last years income, it will be low enough to help....