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Citizens Advice
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The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.
Every Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funds to provide these vital services for local communities.
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 HomeCampaigning for changeCurrent campaignsEnd child poverty campaignThis is child poverty
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This is child poverty... |
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Here you can hear from people who've sent in stories of their experience of child poverty. Citizens Advice will use these stories in our campaign to hold the government to account on their promise to halve child poverty by 2010.
 | Added 21 July 2008 i have been just been given 14 days notice to quit the 2 bedroom flat with my 12 year old son due to rent arrears i have been to the county court and they wanted possession with immediate affect but the judge has granted me 14 days then me and my son are on our own no where to go no family i am so scared and dont know what to do.
Mary, 37
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| Added 18 July 2008 I struggle to pay everyday bills especially the gas in the winter which can be as high as £25 a week. We get £120 a week to live on. I have £52 a month in rent to pay. Sometimes I don't have enough to do a proper food shop. I'm worried how I will afford my son's school uniform when he starts secondary in September. There's never anything left for treats or days out, this makes me feel guilty.
Jamelia, 28
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| Added 3 July 2008 I am a single parent of two, and I find it very hard to financially cope, with having to pay bills, gas, electric, etc. I'm in so much debt and do live in poverty. I find it very hard to even buy food, and to clothe my children. It's a constant struggle on a day to day basis to be able to afford to live.
Gill, 23
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| Added 2 July 2008 i have three children. i get 1,400 pounds a month both my working child tax credit and my job.my mortgage is £900 per month. my council tax is £91 a month plus so many bills to pay. after trying to pay my bills i only have £100 left to buy foods for my children for a month. i have to go to the market in the evening to pick whatever foods the market people throw away to cook for my children. when i call for help to apply for at least free school dinner for my children they told me that i am not qualified because i am getting working tax credit. i only do 20hour a week.my children wears torn clothes and shoes to school. sometimes when i go to second hand shops i cannot get their size or the colour of the school shoes they need. i do not know what to do. i am fed up and feel like dying. i got a job as a nurse after qualifying last year i was told that i am not suitable to work just because on my crb there is information that i was arrested after falling to pay for my 5yrs old child bus fare in 2001. i am really tired.
Jane, 40, Essex
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