If you partner makes you rely on them for everything financially, makes all the monetary decisions for your household without consulting you and makes you justify every penny you spend, you may be being subjected to financial abuse. Restricting your access to money is a way to control you and limit your independence.
Financial abuse includes:
- Controlling all social welfare payments, including claiming for the children.
- Controlling all the family finances, including any income you have.
- Making you account for any purchases including providing receipts and account for all spending.
- Not allowing you to buy personal items such as clothing, tampons and sanitary towels.
- Taking all of your bank cards and emptying joint accounts.Not paying child maintenance payments, or being inconsistent with them.
- Using these payments to exert control over you.
- Forging your signature on checks, or logging into your online accounts to make payments or transfers.
- Withholding money to make you have sex with them.
- Denying you money to pay for groceries and household bills. Blaming the economy to justify the abuse.
No one deserves to be abused. If you are being subjected to any of these abusive behaviours, call us when it is safe to do so. We will help you begin to think through your next move, with your safety as our highest priority.
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