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.
