Ok i'm still only halfway through #37 but wanted to post this aboiut the bank balance stuff
Now keep in mind this is IOWA i'm talking about.
With my regular ATM card I can check my balance of my acct. at any atm in the country I've used ATM's from MN to OH and always been able to get my balance.. BUT My friend who is separated from her son's father is receiving assitance while she finsishes college.
The state went after my friends EX and was he was court ordered to pay support. In Iowa it's called Child Support Recovery, but you don't have to be receiving assistance to get t heir help, you just have to pay like $50 or something if you can't get your ex to opay up.
So anyway because she had to go through them the money is also filtered through them. Ex pays Child support office, child support office pays my friend her child support money. IT is done in the way of something called a Relia card it's a state issues bank card. She cannot get a balance from ANY ATM we've yet tried, The card although state issued is attached to some small bank out in NJ or something. When she tried to get a balance it spits out a receipt that says insufficient information to finish transaction. So she ALWAYS had to try to withdrawl $5 first and then she'll get a balance. I don't know why it works this way.. but it does. and Her ex doesn't always pay regularly or sometimes the state has computer glitches so it's a crapshoot when the money is going to be there. If she goes to withdraw $5 and it tells her insuff. funds, then she knows the money hasn't been put in the acct yet.
Now we know billie says clint wasn't helping money wise (and I don't knwo if that is true or not), but she also lost her lush nurses job, and I'm sure a lot of money per year as well. It would make sense she would apply for some help, even if it was just a few food stamps or whatever. From what I can find about TX it kinda operates like Iowa loosk like there IS a child support enforcement type thing etc....
Also while it may not seem like a lot i've seen $5/mo payments before...
Anyway it's possible she was trying to see how much child support money she had, or if his (clints) payment hit her acct yet. NOW if she was using her kids CS money to buy drugs i'll farken lose it.. but it might explain why no balanace.