Mum of 8 who has ‘been given £500k in benefits’ brags she’s bought a horse and a boob job

A mum-of-eight has told however surviving connected benefits for the past 23 years has ne'er held her backmost from surviving a beingness of luxury.

Marie Buchan, 42, is 1 of millions successful Britain’s worklessness crisis. The mum-of-eight has been connected benefits for astir of her big beingness but says she has ever managed to dainty herself to luxuries.

She has received astir £500,000 successful authorities wealth and says the authorities has allowed her to unrecorded an extravagant lifestyle. Marie has utilized the wealth to bargain a boob occupation and a equine which she has been heavy criticised for.

But present Marie says she regrets her choices.

Speaking to The Sun, she said: “Being connected benefits has ne'er held maine backmost from doing anything.”

In the UK today, much than 20 percent of the moving population, astir 9.4 cardinal people, are jobless, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The contented has been a absorption for PM Sir Keir Stamer who said Labour is moving to tackle the issue.

For Marie, surviving disconnected the authorities has not meant going without.

In 2018, she travelled to Turkey to get a £1,500 boob occupation which caused controversy. Marie said she paid for the attraction by selling possessions astatine car footwear income but it has been pointed retired that these possessions would apt person been brought with authorities wealth anyway.

Since receiving costly cosmetic country and quality treatments, Marie said it was a large mistake and embarrassing for her children.

She again caused outrage erstwhile she brought a equine with her benefits.

She told The Sun: “I conscionable wanted to bargain myself thing bully and I had been redeeming my money. It had ever been my imagination to ain one.

“I paid £600 upfront for the equine and past had to wage an further £100 a period to support him astatine the yard. Food was astir £25 a month.”

Marie again admitted making a mistake with this lavish acquisition and yet had to get escaped of her equine arsenic she couldn't spend it.

At the property of 19, Marie welcomed her archetypal child, since past she has been successful and retired of enactment owed to wanting to walk clip astatine location to look aft her children - she said with the benefits she received, this was imaginable and easier.

Over the 23 years she has been connected benefits, her yearly income has fluctuated betwixt £26,000 and £37,000. She believes the authorities needs to marque a propulsion to halt radical similar her from being allowed to assertion benefits.

Marie’s oldest girl has followed successful her mother’s footsteps and is present besides claiming benefits. Now that Marie’s oldest girl is moving out, their benefits person been cut. This has near her household successful fiscal trouble and Marie admits having to crook to a nutrient bank.

After not moving since 2017, Marie recognises it is clip she returns to enactment and has booked an assignment to marque a CV. She aims to crook things astir and aspires to enactment arsenic a Healthcare Assistant.