Mum-of-eight fears new benefits cap will make her homeless

[Jazzy]

A single mum-of-eight says she could be made homeless under the new benefits cap.

Unemployed Marie Buchan, 33, of Birmingham, currently receives £26,000-a-year in benefits – but this will be slashed by £6,000.

The £20,000 welfare limit was among measures announced by George Osborne in the first Tory-only Budget for 18 years.

But Marie says she is already behind with her rent and the cut would see her kicked out of her subsidized four-bedroom home.

Marie lives in a house rented from Bournville Village Trust with her children, aged 13 to 21 months.

She said: ‘Eight is more than enough to care for.

‘What really gets to me is I have had so much hate from over the world.

‘People say I’m lazy and take, take, take. But I’m a mum of eight who is under the cap and works hard raising my eight children. That’s a full-time job on its own.’

Marie says she used to work as a cleaner but had to quit because of issues with getting her children ready in the mornings.

Thoughts? Do you think she's lazy and just playing the system?

 

[Evil Eye]

Somehow a job seems easier than eight kids to me.

If she can't support them financially I guess it's time for CPS to step in, a shame, sure, but unless she can find some sponsors...

 

[seasidemike]

That's a shame, I guess she will have to move to a place she can afford and make more babies

 

[Jazzy]

I don't agree with what she's doing at all, it's irresponsible and immoral to have children just to see what you can get. However the real victims here are the children. Is it their fault their mother decided to have them? is it their fault she's decided to live this kind of lifestyle? No it isn't. They don't deserve to be punished, to have a substandard life, to be placed into poverty all because of the actions of their mother.

 

[seasidemike]

I don't agree with what she's doing at all, it's irresponsible and immoral to have children just to see what you can get. However the real victims here are the children. Is it their fault their mother decided to have them? is it their fault she's decided to live this kind of lifestyle? No it isn't. They don't deserve to be punished, to have a substandard life, to be placed into poverty all because of the actions of their mother.

They don't deserve it but that is the world she has created for them