A traumatised mum who repeatedly told benefits officials she had been sexually assaulted is taking legal action against the government.
The woman ate beans on toast for a fortnight during a months-long battle to get her full entitlement of Universal Credit. She told the Mirror she contemplated suicide during her struggle to get the £236-a-month “child element” for her third child - who she says was conceived in an attack on her by an ex-partner in 2019.
UC claimants can only get the “child element” for two children under Tory cuts - but children born of sexual offences are exempt.
Ministers have insisted claims for third children under the controversial ‘rape clause’ are handled sensitively. But the mum, in her 30s, claims she had to tell
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