Grocery Voucher - $20

A mother who is experiencing financial hardship. She has a 1-year-old child. She is currently living with a perpetrator who has control of all the finances despite the mother asking him to provide the information. As well as perpetrating financial abuse, the mother is experiencing emotional and physical abuse. She lives in a remote area and does not have any financial means to go anywhere. She does not have access to the car. The mother has no family support and limited friends around her. Although the father of their child works full-time, he provides $60 for the mother to buy food for her and her child while the father is working away. Despite asking him for more money, the father continues to tell the mother to 'stop spending all the money'. The mother is not entitled to any financial assistance due to the father's earnings are too much. The mother is extremely worried about Christmas and how she and her child are going to afford to eat due to the father being away over the period