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My husband and I are disabled veterans. Lately, we have been overwhelmed because his PTSD has been acting up and they are worried it may be early onset Alzheimer's. Last month we were informed that Jeff's schedule was changed, and in doing so the college inadvertently messed up our GI Bill payments. He was a half time student with 8 credit hours, and a schedule change made him a half time student with 6 credit hours. He was assured that this was still half-time. Unfortunately, the VA requires 7 hours (not 6) to receive their housing payments, so literally, all of our income was unexpectedly severed (aside from his disability) until the end of the semester by the college. It was no fault of our own and we have been trying to get help from the college since April 1st.
Read more about this here: twitter thread
Although they admitted they did this and promised to help, all the social worker did was assign us to contact other resources within the community. They want an eviction notice to even start helping us get the rent paid, but the point (at least for us) is to NOT be evicted or give our landlord a reason to get rid of us.
We've scraped by and The City of Austin has us on their list of medically dependent so we don't have to worry about them cutting the lights any time soon, but we need $400 to pay the rent. We have the rest of it we just can't come up with this last $400.
In June the summer semester will start and Jeff can go back to school part-time. I have been looking for a job and I think I will get a part-time gig I can do here soon. Again, we are both disabled so part-time is the best we can do- and we've made it this far. As far as his health we are going through the VA and his next appointment is May 27th so it's hurry up and wait.
If we can't come up with the rent we don't have enough to move, to stay in a hotel, for anything. We HAVE to come up with this or we will be on the street. Please help us if you can.
It's difficult but not impossible with your help.
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