Single Mum Living On Toast So She Can Feed Kids After Benefit Is Cut

It's easy to feel a bit put out when you have to settle for a sad bowl of noodles because there's not enough cash to splash on a Deliveroo. But then you flash back to the night before, laughing to the bartender about how dangerous all this contactless card stuff is, before proceeding to buy a round of Jägerbombs for everyone in the fucking building. Ah, makes sense now.

For single mum of four Cassie McTaggart, however, it's not a case of shit noodles for one day after a Jägerbomb binge. It's been a case of living off only toast for entire weeks at a time - and some days without any food whatsoever - just so she can feed her kids.

"I'm concerned that the most vulnerable people are being persecuted by the Government," she says, speaking to the Derby Telegraph.

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"My Healthy Start vouchers were revoked without warning and I didn't realise until the following month when I was short of money.

"I lived on a single loaf of bread a week for the whole month so I could feed my children hot food and provide for them properly.

"Some days I went without food completely as I always put the children first."

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She continues: "If they had informed me that the vouchers were going to be revoked I could have at least prepared for it. But I had no warning whatsoever and I suffered for it physically and mentally.

"I lost a lot of weight and I felt very stressed and depressed. It was a horrific period and I don't know how they expected me to feed my children."

Cassie - who has a six-month-old daughter and three young boys, aged five, seven and eight - never received an apology or full explanation about what happened, but was simply told there had been an 'error with their systems'.

"I've heard stories about people waiting up to six weeks for their benefits. There's no way we could survive six weeks without money.

"The Job centre has already told me to prepare and start saving money for the transition period. But I haven't got any money to save, that's the problem."

Certainly puts whining on about no Domino's after rinsing our money on Jägerbombs into perspective, doesn't it?