A mum hit by benefit cuts has said that she is being forced to use food banks to feed her eight children. Marie Buchan, 39, says her money has been cut by around £160 per week since her two eldest children are now over 16.
She has called the situation a “huge struggle” for the family with kids aged 20, 18, 16, 15, 13, 11, 10 and eight. Marie told Birmingham Live : “Two of my daughters are over the age of 16 now so I have had my benefits, like child benefits and tax credit, cut. "I am around £160 per week worse off now.
It is a struggle and I use food banks just to survive. I basically live on food banks at the moment."You have to do what you have to do to survive and I am so grateful that I can turn to them.
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