So Ben’s former employer is contesting his application for unemployment benefits. He has a reasonable response to every thing they’ve brought up, but it’s all taking so long. We have no savings. Life and Belinda’s medical stuff finished that up. I expect some small checks from the newspaper, and hopefully that will keep the bank account from going under, but I don’t have much hope in that, since it went under last month at the very end. I sure wish the electric didn’t wait until the end of the month to come out!

The quandry is…we need to keep the Soonercare insurance for Belinda if Ben doesn’t have a “real” job that includes benefits. He’s applying all over and has been in conversation with some companies, and he’s trying super hard, but it’s just not happening so far. And still, we can’t really go out and get temporary jobs because that will cause our income to go up and we could lose the insurance. We can’t risk that.

I can’t figure out what people do in this situation. Do we try to find odd jobs or something under the table? That seems wrong, but I know people do what they have to do.

I guess I should try to ascertain exactly how much money we can make and still be able to keep Soonercare. It is SO HARD to try to figure out this stuff though!

I don’t even know if she can stay on it if Ben finally gets unemployment benefits, since that would count as an income increase. Everything is so confusing and I’m tired.