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'Pay cuts will hit us hard' ... Anita and family beside their 60-inch plasma TV
Slideshows Scandal ... Anita Hull and her kids in their 'playground' complete with trampoline
What they get
?450 a week child tax credits
?120 a week child benefit
?129 a week in housing benefit
FREE council tax
?70 per fortnight Jobseeker's Allowance
TOTAL: ?38,324 A YEAR
A MUM of 13 who splurged ?1,700 of her benefits on a 60in plasma TV claimed last night that plans to cap payments to the workshy would leave her family "on the breadline".
Whining Anita Hull, 38, lives with unemployed partner Steve Dalton, 46, and nine of their 13 children in a large detached house - all paid for by the taxpayer.
Their benefits-funded income totals ?38,324 a year but Anita last night branded Chancellor George Osborne's move to limit handouts to ?26,000 a year as "completely out of order".
She said: "I would really like to see the Government give us a break and give us MORE money.
"We need everything we can get and this is going to hit us hard.
"If our handouts get cut back, we are going to suffer. It will mean I won't be able to buy my children new clothes when they get tatty. I won't be able to pay all my bills on time."
Yet the couple can still afford luxuries like the giant telly and even a SWIMMING POOL.
In the garden the family also have a large trampoline and a big wooden playground area featuring swings and a climbing frame.
Anita, whose family live in a newly-built four-bedroom home in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, used a massive chunk of a ?2,500 backdated benefits cheque for the TV.
She said: "I know ?1,700 is a lot for a telly, but the picture is great.
"The rest of the money we spent on clothes for the kids but I think they were happier to see the new TV than they were with their new clothes."
Anita and Steve have not worked since 1989, after the birth of their first child, Troy, now 20.
Their other children are Traci, 19, Tristan, 18, Tarron, 17, Tyi, 15, Travis, 13, Tyler-Lee, 11, Tegan, nine, Trafford, seven, Tenika, five, Tamerira, three, and twins Treyboy and Tilly-Joy, five months. Tarron suffers from hydrocephalus (water on the brain), cerebral palsy, epilepsy and is blind and has been taken into care by social services. The three eldest children have moved out.
Anita said: "We found it very hard when we had just two children. But, now we have 13, it's a lot easier because we get more money.
"Some people have more kids to get more money but we didn't do that.
"People on benefits have a tougher time than others think.
"We have to watch every penny and I constantly have to tell my children 'no' when they want to buy things.
"Keeping the kids entertained is my job now. Steve and I would find it really hard to go back to work after all this time.
"The birthdays are never ending. I strictly make sure I put the spare money from the ?160-a-week shopping run into a pot to pay for presents.
"They only get one present each but it is still expensive. In March, I forked out ?99 for a Nintendo DS for Trafford."
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