Every month for the past six months, a single mum on Universal Credit has been left hundreds of pounds short due to a delay in reimbursing childcare costs since she returned to work as a nurse after a "complicated pregnancy".
Abbie Hogarth, 37, suffered severe pelvic pain that put her in hospital and left her unable to stand without crutches before the premature birth of her baby who then had multiple health scares, including jaundice.
During the pregnancy, Abbie discovered her husband of two years, who she'd been with for 13, was having a six-year affair with a woman he then left her for.
