Decidedly Peeved

When I say Decidely Peeved I am really irritated at the State of Minnesota with regards to their handling of my Child Support.  I realize I am not the only one who receives child support but what happened again, I think should be addressed.  The State of Minnesota normally sends me the notice on a Tuesday so I get my child support in the bank on Thursday or Friday.  This week, once again, they sent my notice on a Thursday, which means I have to get through the weekend with no child support.  I won't receive it in my bank until either Monday or Tuesday.  I really don't think these people realize that by screwing up the distribution timing of our payments, they are only hurting the children that are to be benefiting from receiving child support.  I have to wait with bills and groceries now because I don't have enough in my account to pay for those things.  My child support covers support for my child.  That means part of her food, clothes and care that I don't provide.  Those needs are not met if there are no funds available to her.  Now next week would be different, I get paid next week and will have a little money left after bills for her care, my portion of her care.  She attends Kidstop (a before and after school care program) which has to be paid every week regardless.  It isn't cheap but what is a working mother to do.  Those of us who receive child support for our children already have that money figured in many of our budgets, by having people mess with the distribution time of it, that messes up already tight budgets and makes them even tighter!  This weekend from today at 5pm to Sunday at 11pm the website will be down for maintenance.  The last time the website was down for maintenance, they did the same thing to our child support.  Gave it to us late so we had to wait for the following week.  Many of us worry that the other parent is lying about working when we get delayed payments.  I have discovered that rather than call and gripe at her father, just waiting the extra days and it shows up is better.  Some people don't have that kind of patience.  That just gets everyone upset, especially when the other parent is working.  Now they get defensive and say and do mean and hurtful things.  It all could be avoided if our childs money is distributed on time, every time!