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SCROUNGER mum Sara Hesmonhalgh has spent her entire working life on benefits — after deliberately having kids to avoid getting a job.

Sara, 24, started planning her first pregnancy in her last year at school and had Charlie when she was 16.

She said: “For me and for many of my friends at school it was the only way out and a few of us took it. What was the point of getting a crummy job on minimum wage?

“I struggled to bond with Charlie at first — he’d been born primarily to put money in my pocket and it worked.

“Within weeks I was given a flat. I was 16, had income support, child tax credits and my housing paid for.”

As Charlie reached seven, Sara realised she would be put on Jobseekers’ Allowance, and have less cash.

So she simply set out to get pregnant again. Her baby daughter Summer is now six months old.

Shameless Sara boasted: “I was getting £130 a week with everything else paid for. With Summer it’s gone up to £200.”

The girl’s dad is an unemployed drain technician claiming sickness benefit because he has a drug problem

And Sara’s two-bedroom council flat in Leyland, Lancs, shows just how well she has worked the system

There is a 42-inch 3D plasma TV in her lounge and only last week she bought herself a £400 laptop and a £120 PSP for her son Charlie to go with his PS3.

Sara — who has no qualifications — revealed: “I bought the laptop so I could go online and play poker. Online poker is my release.

“I won £50 the other day but I don’t always win.”

She continued: “People might call me a scrounger but I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong. Everybody else is doing it.”




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