Stacey Solomon says benefits 'saved my life' amid financial struggles as a teenage mum

express.co.uk:

Stacey Solomon joined Kaye Adams, Judi Love and Nadia Sawalha on the panel as they spoke about the possibility of households receiving £400 to help with their energy bills. "I just think it's another example of how out of touch the government are," Stacey, 32, said as Kaye raised the topic.However, 59-year-old Kaye argued back: "A lot of this is Covid, then you have the situation in Ukraine.

I hate to use the word unprecedented, but these are unprecedented times."Stacey was having none of it though and decided to open up about her own personal experience of relying on benefits."When I had Zachary at 17, 18, I got a Sure Start Grant, it was called at the time, and I can't tell you how much that saved my life," she said."My working tax credits saved our life, we could not have got by without those.“The milk tokens that we used to get to help us buy SMA and milk and stuff from the shops that we couldn't afford."“All of that got abolished.

Like some of my friends who are in similar circumstances now don't even have those opportunities, they're completely taken away from people and then they turn around and go, ‘Oh look, we're in a cost of living crisis, let's roll out £400'.