Mother pleads for help

Liverpool said since then she had been receiving a monthly disability grant in the sum of $1,800. But she discovered this month that the grant was terminated.

In tears, Liverpool said she went to collect her cheque from TTPOST for the month of March but left empty handed.

She told Newsday that she contancted officials at the Social Welfare office in Point Fortin and was told that her grant was discontinued.

“When they told me that I really could not believe it,” Liverpool said. “I did not know what to do.

I begged them and they told me there was nothing they could do.” Liverpool said she and her husband separated before her daughter was born.

She is also an outpatient of the psychiatric clinic at the San Fernando General Hospital and is on medication daily.

Liverpool said she is willing to work to provide for herself and her daughter but doctors have told her she is unfit to go into the workforce.

She said her daughter’s father pays maintenance in court but the money is only sufficient to purchase milk and diapers.

“How am I going to buy food for myself and pay my bills? They did not take these things into consideration.

Liverpool said she does not know who or where to turn to for help, but she is calling on the relevant authorities to investigate her matter. Efforts to contact officials at the Ministry of Social Welfare proved futile.