Scroungers
A SHAMELESS mother of nine who claims £ 38,000 a year in benefits has booked a two- week holiday in Spain for her entire family.
Cheryl Prudham brazenly revealed yesterday that the family of 11 had paid the deposit for the sunshine break in Menorca next May after receiving a benefits back payment.
Incredibly, she then took to Facebook to moan about applying for passports for all nine of her brood.
She complained: “Have to do all my passport applications again, pain in the a***!”
Mrs Prudham, 31, from Teynham, Kent, hit the headlines when she claimed benefits scroungers were giving supersize families a “bad name”.
She said she expected to be handed a bigger council house – which could cost the taxpayer another £ 5,000 a year – because she and her husband work part- time.
Last night she said she does not care what people think and insists she is entitled to the Spanish trip.
She said: “It will be our first- ever holiday and I’ve worked my backside off to earn the deposit for it.
“It’s not me who deserves a holiday, it’s my children. Why shouldn’t they have what other children have? They are really excited to be going.
“It is going to take us about a year to pay off. I don’t even know how we will afford it but we won’t let our kids down so we’ll get there somehow.”
Mrs Prudham, who admits her children were not planned because she and husband Robert, 28, do not like using contraception, also bragged she plans to go on a shopping spree.
She wrote: “Can’t wait to go Christmas shopping tomorrow,” before explaining she had received “great big back pay”.
She added: “I don’t think there’s any wrong in going Christmas shopping. I would understand if I was spending all the money on myself but it’s going on my kids.”
As the Prudhams work part- time as carers for the elderly, they are exempt from the Government’s £ 26,000- a- year benefits cap, which was introduced earlier this year.