burden
He got a part-time job to ease the financial burden on his parents.
Many argue that fees would be an unacceptably heavy financial burden for many people.
High oil prices are placing a heavy financial burden on developing countries.
They worry about how they are going to shoulder the financial burden of their children's education.
The government is imposing a great financial burden on small businesses with these new regulations.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
have someone over a barrelidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom