Dec says, “We’re told by the government that we are living well. I think we are scrimping, from week to week, to – I wouldn’t say live – I would say survive. I do not want to be living off handouts for the rest of my life. There’s weeks where I have to go and borrow money off people and it’s so, so degrading. Do I deserve better? Do other people deserve better? I think they do.”

Source: Mary O’Hara (2014) Austerity Bites, Policy Press, 43