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December 4, 2013
A single mother with eight children who receives £2,000 a month in state handouts has complained she is struggling to make ends meet.
Marie Buchan, 31, whose children range in age from 12 to two months, lives in a three-bedroom housing association house in Selly Oak, Birmingham, but says it’s not big enough and has applied for a bigger one.
And she says her benefits payments, which were reduced from £582 a week to £500 a week in September after the government introduced a cap on handouts, are not enough for her family to survive on.
Now Miss Buchan, who is £2,000 in arrears with her rent, says she fears she may be evicted after falling behind with her rent.
She said: ‘The benefit cap has hit me hard – money is very tight. I am £82-a-week worse off and, when you have eight children, every penny counts.
‘I don’t waste my money – everything goes on my children. It is tough bringing up eight children on your own, a constant battle.
‘I feel the threat of eviction all the time. I have already been to court once due to rent arrears and I fear I may be dragged there again.
‘I am scrimping and saving to try to get the arrears down but it is very difficult.’
Miss Buchan’s financial problems are compounded by the fact that she owes £600 in bus lane fines after receiving ten tickets for straying in bus lanes in Birmingham city centre in three days.
