I'm sure you could go to the council and say due to the pregnancy and your mothers tendancy to drink and overcrowding etc she has asked you to leave within 4 weeks (this is considered 'short notice' and you do become a little more of a priority) and you and your husband/partner are expecting a child, are on a low income, have no where to go and so forth. If you keep communicating with them something will surely come up for you. If push came to shove and your Mum did say "out now" type thing the will house you and your husband/partner together in what they call emergency shelters, this might be a local B&B it might be a hostel some miles from your current location, it depends on avaliability etc. Once you are in emergency shelter you do become top of the housing list and are usually offered temporary accommodation within just a few weeks, sometimes days depending again on the area and demand etc and after that a permanant residence so long as you 'behave' in the temporary accommodation, i.e. no complaints about noise, anti-social behavour and so forth. Then it's like every other couple/person moving into council housing, you sign your contract and can then apply for housing benefit, tax credits, child tax credits and despite having one income you can still claim for income support. Even if you earn just enough to not qualify for weekly payouts to you it might be enough so you would qualify for things like free prescriptions and milk tokens etc. Every little helps! There are maternity grants and schemes out there but I know little about those as I know we don't qualify for anything of the sort given I've been a "lady of leisure" for a few years now - be honest with telling them what you earn, what's coming in via current benefits etc as you will need to provide proof and possibly bank statements etc also - we had a man knock on our door about 4 months ago from housing benefit, the lady over the road is apparently claiming it as a single mother of 2 children. She has 1 son and her other half lives with her. We were just asked basic questions like whether we knew their names, how many people would we say lived there on a permanant basis and so forth, as soon as we said they were as far as we knew an unmarried couple with one child he said that matched up to everyone elses statements of them and thus they were committing benefit fraud - I don't know what happened after that, I don't really know my neighbours that well but it was quite eye opening to think that everyone that had been asked had opened their mouths and spoke out about what they did know - I honestly didn't think that many people would have. Anyway I'm digressing now. Just keep in contact, every other day or something, with the housing/council etc and don't be afraid to back your case up with letters from your doctor or social services for things like overcrowding or saying your afraid for the baby given your mum drinks and can be unpredictable with allowing you to stay and not stay etc - every little helps, fight your case fairly, you will get somewhere I assure you. Good luck.
but what iam doing is not wrong because i did not lie about getting my own place my mum did throw me out and i had to fen for myself after finding out i was pregnant.......
