Families of children and youth suffering from cancer have been financially struggling for several months, which according to a donation have been waiting for benefits to help cover the additional costs caused by the disease.

Young Lives vs. Cancer says that families require “immediate” help with the cost of additional stay, which is calling for a quick access to 700 pounds per month – on average.

A family has said that his 16 -year -old son Oliver’s leg was left “financially broken” from additional life costs after dissection because he had a rare type of cancer.

The government says that it is committed to providing people to “time” access to “time”, but accepts that “waiting is too much”.

Kerry Bolton of Solihul said that he had to wait five months ago when his son Oliver was decided on the application of his profit after finding out the cancer, at the age of 16.

“The hospital is an hour away from us and I don’t drive. It was giving us a cost of £ 48 a day so that we could travel in a taxi there.”

Oliver later dissected a leg, meaning his family had to buy new clothes to fit her.

Ms. Bolton said that she also faced high electric bills to charge her prosthetic leg.

“Oli’s leg needs electricity … If I do not have electricity, it can’t walk.”

Ms. Bolton said that she had to use more energy to heat her home to keep her home warm, because due to her immunosuration treatment.

During the treatment of a child’s cancer, families may need to travel to distant appointments, buy special food, use more power and heating, pay for children for children and stay in hotels.

Under the UK law, cancer patients may be entitled to profit to help in costs.

However, patients are not eligible for financial assistance until they become ill for three months.

According to Young Lives vs. Cancer, their application for their application one has to wait an average of four months, with hundreds of patients interviewed and a new report is given.

Charity is calling families to qualify for profit immediately after diagnosis.

Daniel Roberts of North Wales told the BBC that he experienced financial “stress”, as soon as his nine -year -old daughter Jasmine came to know of cancer last year, but did not get any benefit for eight months.

“We were simply thrown into this world, where … our child has cancer and we don’t know that he is going to survive, as well as with financial impact dealing with.

“You still got all these bills to return and pay for the hospital, which was at a distance of one hour and 15 minutes, additional food, habitat”.

Ms. Roberts said that the work added under financial stress has to be taken for a long time.

“My income was dramatically reduced because it is difficult to work when your child is in the hospital … and you do not want to work, you should be able to spend time with your child when they are bad when they are bad.”

“What we are seeing is heartbreaking,” young people Vs. Cancer Chief Executive Rachel Kirby-Rader told the BBC.

“People do not have this disposable income, they do not have that money in savings.

“Waiting for seven months for disability benefits is taking lots of families in debt and affecting families, when they just want to focus on getting their child well.”

The charity is also concerned about the application process, as the 50-pest forms were “difficult, long and complex”, asking families for a detailed description about their child’s needs.

The process should be made “simple and efficient”, it says, using medical evidence alone to create applications.

Ms. Roberts said that she struggled to find a “head space” to complete the application form when she was ill, when she was ill.

“They have asked a lot of questions and you have to send the added proof … You don’t want it to really think that ‘is my child going to recover?”.

“This is something that should not be done when going through that painful time.”

A department of the spokesperson for work and pension said: “We are committed to ensure that people can get financial assistance through personal freedom payments and disabilities for children on time.

“But we believe that the wait is very high, and we have increased the number of employees to respond to the increase in the amount of claims.”