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A single mum-of-eight says new plans by David Cameron to reduce the benefits cap from £26,000 to £23,000 will lead to SUICIDES.

Marie Buchan is looking for her first-ever job because of proposed new Government benefit cuts - and complains: "I'm being forced into work.''

She says the proposals could leave her young family on the breadline as she will be £58 a week worse off.

Marie, 33, from Selly Oak, has made an appointment with the Jobcentre in a bid to find part-time work to boost her income.

She told the Birmingham Mail: "This benefits cap is getting out of control. I have an appointment with the Jobcentre next week and it will be for my first-ever job.

"I am being forced into work. You're going to get similar cases as to what happened with the bedroom tax - people taking their own lives due to the financial pressures they are feeling.

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"It will hit people that hard."

She added: "I was very shocked when I heard David Cameron's plans for capping. It was bad enough when the benefits were capped last time.

"I have eight children who need to be fed and clothed and properly looked after, but it's so difficult to do that when money is so tight. I think most are struggling to pay rent under the current cap - I know I am.

"It is a constant struggle."

Yet even if she lands a 16-hour a week job, Marie will STILL receive her full benefits.

"I went to a work focus interview and was told if I work for 16 hours a week I would get my full rent paid," she explained.

"I would be so much better off as I would still be entitled to child tax credit and child benefit, and then also up to £350 childcare. It appears going back to work may be the only option for me.

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"I know I will be the better person for working but it will be tough with eight children to look after.

"I did attempt to start work and had it all in place to do a 16-hour cleaning job but the kids didn't want to get ready in the morning, so I could leave in time. It's going to be so tough."

Marie hit the headlines after telling the Birmingham Mail how she could not live on £500-a-week benefits after Mr Cameron introduced the initial £26,000 benefits cap back in 2013, which was said to be the average household weekly wage.

She said looking after her eight children - all of them under the age of 13 - was a 21-hour working day. Marie explained that she gets up at 6am and does not get to bed some days until 3am.

She said at that time that she counts every penny she spends.