benefits were reduced by £160 a week.Marie explains that her child benefits and tax credits have been cut because her two oldest children are now over the age of 16.The 39-year-old, from Selly Oak in Birmingham, said: "It is a huge struggle for me.
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,” she told BirminghamLive.
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