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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.
Eunice is Kid of the Month 91 Ways to Save on Almost Anything Here's how to stretch your dollars -- and pinch your pennies 'til they scream -- while you feel little or no pain. by Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine Want to save a buck? How about a few hundred or a couple thousand?
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Financial Help and Free Grants Frequently Asked Questions
SingleMom.com™ welcomes all Single Moms! We've receive countless of emails on a daily basis from single moms that raising children while struggling on the daily basis with no support from the society. How hard they try to live one day at the time and try to make the best for their children. Many asking for advice and more, so we've decided to dedicate a special page to answer these questions. It's an advice corner where our staff & visitors like you will address the concerns of single moms.
So THANK YOU for visiting our website. We are proud to be a place where you can turn to when you need someone to talk to. We wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for your support throughout the years. Once again, thank you for your support and we will try our best to make this website your site of choice for resources, information and advice for you and your family.
SingleMom.com™ staff & volunteers.
Financial Help Questions
All these questions are original from our visitors like you:
Question 1: I'm really in need of assistance for school and personal reasons I have no means of transportation and I have no money for myself?
Question 2: Does anyone know where I can get grants for purchasing a home and to pay off bills?
Question 3: I'm a single mom and I just got accepted into the nursing program that starts this Aug. I have to go 5 days a week to classes! How am I going to work too and pay my bills?? Are there any grants or help for me out here??
Question 4: Help, I am in college and unemployed and need help paying bills while I am in school?
Question 5: Need to leave my husband, but I have been stay at home mom for almost 3 years now. I have no money, no credit cards, no family to help. I do have a car. I am so desperate. I am at the end and I do not know where to go. My husband has cut me off from everything to include my email. So I had to start a new one. I have to stay in this town because my son goes to school here. I need daycare so I can find a job and need to find a place to live. Please try to help me My husband is very moody, yeah I know who isn't, it's just that he could care less if the children are around. I am trying not to disturb my children lifestyle. This is not their fault. Can you help?
Question 6: I am just beginning to scratch the surface. Right now, I'm between a rock and a hard place and it feels like I have no where to turn but bankruptcy. I don't want to do that so that's why I'm searching. I am glad there's a website devoted to the single mom. I hope I find something to help me get back on my feet. My daughter deserves something better than what I'm giving her at the moment. Any help?
Question 7: I am 19 and I work full time and have a 2 year old at home. I have no diapers and very little food. I am trying everything I can to get help and to make more money. But I am staying in this position. I have finally gotten to my breaking point and I have to ask for advise. I am working almost all the time and it seems like it is just getting worse. If you have any advise PLEASE HELP!!!!
Question 8: I am a desperate single mom who cannot work due to having to for my multiply handicapped daughter. I was going to school for the last three years and recently earned a Bachelor's degree in Human Services. I was working up until February 2005 when due to my frequent absences I was forced to leave. I have been searching in vain for financial help. I absolutely will NOT place my child in a institution but there is no help available for moms in my situation. Can you offer any advice?
Question 9: I am a single mother with a 1 year old daughter who father killed himself before she was born and all she gets is 200.00 a month for SSI. I am a full time student and work for a penny job making 6.0 a hour and I have bills and more bills. I need some kind of help. Can you all do that for me?
Question 10: I would like to start a small business with an invention that I have I don't have any money to fund this so I would like to apply for a grant could you please help me?
Answer: Thanks for writing to us. We're a non government Website and a not-for-profit organization which we try to collect as many information as possible to provide single moms & visitors like you to visit. All our information is based on contributors, volunteers & visitors like you.
Here are some valuable resources:
• The WIC program for women, infants & children - www.fns.usda.gov/wic/ - They offer variety of helps through local agencies & offices with toll free number & much more.
• Government Benefits. Check your eligibility - search for benefits you maybe able to receive from the government.
Phone: 1-800-333-4636 Open: M-F 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM EST
• Government Grants. Find and apply for a government grants - This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
200 Independence Avenue, SW HHH Building, Room 739F Washington, DC 20201 Phone: 1-800-518-Grants Open: M-F 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM EST Website: www.grants.gov
Best wishes.
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