This is Parween after her mortgage is paid, she has £600 to last her and her two children for the month.
“It affects me considerably,” she says, “because I don’t work in the city that I live in, so I travel to work. And I’m a single mum so I’m finding it really really difficult.”
“It makes me feel really angry,” she adds. “I’ve given so much dedication to the children and I love the job that I do.
“I have had to cut out a lot of things; I try not to go out because I can’t afford it and my children aren’t happy about it. Other people go on holiday and I can’t because I’m struggling just to pay the bills.”
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This is Louise, she has been a teaching assistant for 25 years. Since 1 June, she’s had £500 less in her pay packet because she’s had a 25% pay cut and lost the special class allowance she used to earn for working with deaf children.
This is Karen, a learning mentor who has worked in her school for seven years, she gets to work at 8.30am and is usually the last one to drive her car out the car park.