We need help in Idaho with our rent
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 12:01 pm
Hi! My husband and I are in desperate need of assistance without rent this month. We were both working full-time and a string of unfortunate events the last month has put us in a tight situation.
We do live in Donnelly, Idaho. I have not had any luck finding assistance up here and the end of the month is nearing, and we have no money and are extremely concerned about how we are going to make rent this month.
He was working for Ridley's grocery store and hurt his knee at work; they filed workman's comp for him and are now disputing his claim. He has a lead on work, but even once he starts (hopefully this week), he still won't receive a paycheck for 2 weeks.
I was just let go of my serving job in McCall a week ago. The circumstances of my termination were unclear, and I believe they were just trying to cut back on employees as hours had already been cut back significantly since summer. I do not have a final check coming, the way our tips are taxed we end up with no paychecks and the only money we got to live on was what we would make each night we worked. I have applied for unemployment, however, am about 3 weeks away from getting any compensation from that. We are both looking for odd jobs, and long-term employment every day and I have only one solid lead for work but that will not start until about 2 or 3 weeks from now. We have exhausted ourselves trying to find ways to come up with rent and have had no luck. We have no family in Idaho, we are a younger quiet couple and stick to ourselves, and we have no one here we can rely on for any help. We are at our wits end and I'm hoping that by reaching out to your organization that maybe there's some way you can help or even point us in the right direction. Our landlord will not work with us and won't allow us to pay rent late. We have until the end of the month to come up with 500 dollars for rent and have just a few dollars to live on until we can both start steady work. My advantage with being a server was bringing home cash every night. We have been on a tight budget as is with him being out of work for a bit and assuming he was going to be receiving workman's comp, and with his knee injury he has not been able to work, and now he is in a position where he must find manual labor while he awaits knee surgery. It’s hard this time of year when business slows down, and my loss of work comes out of nowhere and we are just at a complete loss.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to it and hope to hear from you soon!
Brittany
We do live in Donnelly, Idaho. I have not had any luck finding assistance up here and the end of the month is nearing, and we have no money and are extremely concerned about how we are going to make rent this month.
He was working for Ridley's grocery store and hurt his knee at work; they filed workman's comp for him and are now disputing his claim. He has a lead on work, but even once he starts (hopefully this week), he still won't receive a paycheck for 2 weeks.
I was just let go of my serving job in McCall a week ago. The circumstances of my termination were unclear, and I believe they were just trying to cut back on employees as hours had already been cut back significantly since summer. I do not have a final check coming, the way our tips are taxed we end up with no paychecks and the only money we got to live on was what we would make each night we worked. I have applied for unemployment, however, am about 3 weeks away from getting any compensation from that. We are both looking for odd jobs, and long-term employment every day and I have only one solid lead for work but that will not start until about 2 or 3 weeks from now. We have exhausted ourselves trying to find ways to come up with rent and have had no luck. We have no family in Idaho, we are a younger quiet couple and stick to ourselves, and we have no one here we can rely on for any help. We are at our wits end and I'm hoping that by reaching out to your organization that maybe there's some way you can help or even point us in the right direction. Our landlord will not work with us and won't allow us to pay rent late. We have until the end of the month to come up with 500 dollars for rent and have just a few dollars to live on until we can both start steady work. My advantage with being a server was bringing home cash every night. We have been on a tight budget as is with him being out of work for a bit and assuming he was going to be receiving workman's comp, and with his knee injury he has not been able to work, and now he is in a position where he must find manual labor while he awaits knee surgery. It’s hard this time of year when business slows down, and my loss of work comes out of nowhere and we are just at a complete loss.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to it and hope to hear from you soon!
Brittany