{"id":160556,"date":"2022-07-18T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T12:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160556"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:38:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T12:38:01","slug":"i-skip-meals-to-feed-my-baby-after-energy-bills-rose-100-im-counting-pennies-after-racking-up-10k-in-debt-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/i-skip-meals-to-feed-my-baby-after-energy-bills-rose-100-im-counting-pennies-after-racking-up-10k-in-debt-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"I skip meals to feed my baby after energy bills rose \u00a3100 – I\u2019m counting pennies after racking up \u00a310k in debt | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

COUNTING up her loose change each morning, young mum Rebecca Ryan faces the cruellest of decisions – to chip away at her "rapidly-rising" debt or to eat.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old, from Chatham, Kent, says she has been forced to skip meals so that her one-year-old daughter Maya Jane has enough food and has been threatened with bailiffs multiple times.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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With the price of utility bills and food skyrocketing in price, Rebecca, who works as a barista, has been forced to take out loans to stay afloat.<\/p>\n

But having racked up \u00a310,000 of debt already, she fears her financial situation is only set to get "a lot worse" as the cost of living crisis deepens.<\/p>\n

She told The Sun: \u201cIt was hard to live before the prices went up but now, especially after having a little one, it\u2019s getting unbearable.<\/p>\n

\u201cBills are going up and it\u2019s just unachievable to pay them in the short term without getting into debt quite rapidly.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve got about \u00a310,000 of debt already and have to call companies every week to explain that I\u2019m paying what I can \u2013 if I paid them in full I'd be on the streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking to wake up and count the pennies to work out if we can get a food shop or if I\u2019ve got to pay my electricity bill and go without food."<\/p>\n

\u201cSome days I\u2019m skipping meals so that my daughter can have food and I don\u2019t see things getting better for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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