Desperate women are turning to sex work to survive after Universal Credit leaves them with as little as £50 a month, according to outreach workers.

Workers at Manchester Action on Street Health (MASH) - a charity which works with the city’s female sex workers - say the situation for many women is tougher than ever before.

And they believe that the cases they know of women pushed into prostitution by benefits reform may only be the tip of the iceberg.

One woman told charity workers that she sat at home deliberating before deciding that sex work was her only option to make some cash.

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