Mother and daughter combined weigh 43 stone and receive £33,600 in benefits

With a combined weight of a reported 43 stone, a mother and daughter receive an estimated £33,600 in benefits and are ‘fat and happy.’

Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter Amber, 25, do not work, use mobility scooters and live in modified homes in Kirkcaldy, Fife.

The women’s diet involves regularly eating unhealthy foods such as ready meals, burgers, fish and chips and sweets.

Janice Manzur, 44, and her daughter, Amber, 25 (Picture: Medavia)

Ms Manzur told the Sun: ‘I’d rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin.

‘I’ll never encourage her to diet as it made me so unhappy.

‘Amber has never stepped foot in the gym and never will.’

In addition to her scooter, Janice has a wheelchair accessible Fiat Qubo car worth approximately £15,000.

Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum told MailOnline: ‘I think it’s a total exploitation of the benefits system, I’m at a loss for words.

‘There must be a benefits system available to help those people who require assistance and there are many of them, that is correct and that is why it is there.

‘But when it is handed to a family who are happy to exploit it to the degree of £34,000 a year and are refusing to diet the system has gone mad.’