Rich House Poor House family's crippling £11k debt wiped off in life-changing rule break

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The Timmins family were on the brink of survival - and saw no way of escaping their woes. Part-time hairdresser Sarah and husband Ross, a former Navy engineer, and their two children were surviving on just £122 a week.

Struggling to cope with spiralling debts after being forced to rely on borrowing from high-interest credit cards to cover their emergency spending, things looked incredibly bleak. "We do have a considerable amount of debt but it hasn't been brought on from living a high lifestyle," said Ross, who works six days and up to 90 hours a week on a shipyard. "We come stuck on a bill at the end of a month and we put a little bit on the credit card.