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Cash-strapped Birmingham single-mum Clare Bache says life is a constant battle to make ends meet.
The unemployed 38-year-old, of Erdington, who has seven children, says she already struggles financially to raise her large brood, and now she fears her family could be made homeless when her £2,600-a-month benefits are slashed by £600 to £2,000.
The reduction is the result of a benefits cap being introduced by the government, which will see a limit being put on the amount people can claim in benefits.
Clare says her house was repossessed five years ago after she struggled to keep up with the mortgage repayments following her separation from her husband, who is father to six of her children – Huey, six, Anthony, eight, Luke, 10, Jasmine, 12, Katrina 15, and 17-year-old Charlotte.
Clare, who has not been able to get a council house, uses housing benefits to pay £725-a-month for her privately rented six-bedroom house, which she shares with all her children, including youngest Charlie Ali, aged two.
Now she claims that when her benefits are capped, which will happen at some time between July 15 and September 30, she will no longer be able to afford her rent.