Hi, this is my first post on this subreddit. Just a bit of back-story: I’m 19, currently studying at university doing an Accounting degree. I’m not currently employed though I am actively seeking work.
I am currently receiving a student allowance from the government due to me doing full time studies at university. Right now it’s sitting at about $250 a fortnight. Anyway, for about a year my mother insisted that this money should go into her account, as she claimed she’d be more responsible with it. Fair enough. So in the beginning I let this $250 per 2 weeks go into her account. Out of this $250, she would give me $100 every 2 weeks to spend on myself. I still thought all of this was fine. However, she had lied to me, saying that I was only receiving the $100 every 2 weeks TOTAL from the student allowance, and that she was basically giving me all that I was getting. So for a year straight, I genuinely believed I was only getting $100/2weeks, when in reality it was $250/2weeks.
This is when I felt something wasn’t right. So I went and changed the bank account details of which this payment was going to. I was genuinely shocked when I checked my account and saw pretty much 2.5x the normal payment made. I called up government services to make sure this was right and I hadn’t been overpaid. They said everything was fine.
So I go back to my mother (this happened around March this year) and I ask where all the extra money went. She shows me an account of $1,600 in it, saying that she might have to pay it back because she gave government services a low number for her yearly salary, and that once she does her taxback or whatever, if she doesn’t have to pay it back, I’ll get to have it.
Now it’s July. My mother claimed that I would have this $1,600 by now from back in March. I still don’t have it. I asked about it today, and she got angry, basically saying that she’s spent it and that it’s to make up for the years of clothing, feeding, and providing a home for me to live in. I said that I would go back to government services and tell them that she had basically stole a portion of my youth allowance, to which she replied with saying she will kick me out of home, and “turn my world up-side down”. My parents are divorced, so worst-case I can live with my dad easy.
I tried calling my dad and he said he’ll try reason with her. I’ll try update this when I get an answer on how their conversation went. Also, my mother isn’t struggling financially. She owns 2 properties, getting rent from 1 of them, and has a job that pays $150k/yr apparently.
I have absolutely zero idea as to how I should go about this situation. Do I just accept that I’m never gonna get this money? Am I being ungrateful? I don’t know, I want the honest truth. Any help is much appreciated, thank you for reading and thank you in advance for any help.
Submitted July 09, 2018 at 08:12AM by Legazyzz https://ift.tt/2L35kz8
