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Ministers say that 拢26,000 is the most anyone should get in benefits. It equates to 拢500 a week. Do you agree?

Do you live on 拢26,000 post tax? Is it tough or are you coping? Are there people on benefits who seem better off than you? Are you glad there will be a cap on benefits?

It is believed 50,000 families will lose out. Do you feel sorry for them? We hear your views and opinions.

Also on the programme, Hope Daniels, a grandmother from Tunbridge Wells, joins Julia live in the studio to recall the upsetting tale of her childhood in care.

Hope has just released a book entitled 'Hackney Child'. It details her troubled childhood with alcoholic parents and a prostitute mother who saw her clients at home.

Hope was placed into care and believes the support she receives helped her escape the trap that many low income families fall into and enabled her to positively contribute to society (10.06).

And dozens of women with PIP breast implants have been told they cannot be tested further, despite suffering pain or wanting them removed.

Julie Reynolds from Rochester had PIP implants fitted at a private clinic and feels she is having to do all of the chasing having been referred to an NHS consultant at Medway Hospital.

We hear her story and that of Lisa Braithwaite, who is experiencing discomfort after having PIP implants inserted. She has been told that the NHS cannot help her (11.07).

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