Digging through bins, sleeping in cars, shoplifting: it's bleak for Adelaide's single parents HARD TIMES: Liah Lazarou, Kelli Presgrave with son Ben, and Sherree Clay at Salisbury. SINGLE parents are sleeping in cars, resorting to prostitution and picking food from rubbish bins because of cuts to welfare payments, Adelaide single mothers say. The revelations come as welfare agency Anglicare has reported increased demand for services by single parents who are struggling with reduced payments. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has hinted at reversing the changes, introduced on January 1. It moved all single parents on to the Newstart Allowance once their youngest child turns eight, costing them between $60 and $110 a week. Single mums who have spoken to The Advertiser have revealed their day-to-day battles to survive. Mother-of-two, Sherree Clay, 33, of Elizabeth, has had her allowances cut by $160 a fortnight after being moved on to Newstart and can't afford to pay all her bills. "My parents have been helping out paying my electricity, paying my phone bills and paying my car rego," the mother of Paris, 9, and Jonathan, 8, said. I know of other parents going homeless - there was a guy in my area who lost his house and he and his son were sleeping in the car. Single mother of Benjamin, 3, Kelli Presgrave, 40, of Tea Tree Gully, said she had heard of single mothers struggling on their lowered payments. "There is one woman on a Facebook page I'm on who said she's had to resort to dumpster-diving," the sales analyst and accounting student said. I personally know two women who are prostituting at night. Liah Lazarou, 28, of Hyde Park, who is the single mother of Riad, 3, said she was concerned that women were being forced to stay in violent relationships. Anglicare SA, senior financial and housing inclusion manager Christine Bell said the agency had seen an increase in single parents accessing their services. "Across our homelessness services, we are seeing more single parents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness," she said.