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Kate Pounds & Rachel Hains & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Struggling mum surviving on just one meal a day and using candles to light home

A single mum surviving on just one meal a day fears she will 'have to resort to begging' amid the current cost of living crisis.

Kelly Thomson claims she has been left to get by on just £40 a week after she was she was signed off from her cleaning job with Long Covid in December 2020.

Although Universal Credit covers her £1,300 monthly rental and a few other bills, the 43-year-old says this leaves her with only £160 to stretch over the month, Hull Live reports.

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