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'We're a family that's not entitled to any benefits'

A nurse from Limavady who had to take early maternity during the Coronavirus crisis says her family are under so much financial pressure they've been forced to use a food bank. Food poverty is a growing problem in Northern Ireland but charities say it's been compounded by the pandemic. The Breakfast Show is putting a special focus on the scale of the problem in the North West which has some of the highest levels of deprivation in Northern Ireland. Our reporter Dean McLaughlin has been investigating.

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