​A family are reported to be receiving £95,000 a year in state benefits.

Pete and Sam Smith now live in a rent-free four-bedroom house with their 10 children after being evicted from a rented property in Bath.

The Smiths were moved into a property in Kingswood, a month ago after being evicted from the privately-rented house in Weston in Bath.

The couple have not worked since Mr Smith, 40, left the Army in 2001 to care for his wife, who suffers curvature of the spine, and their three children.

Since then Mrs Smith has given birth to seven more and now is paid £140 a week in child benefit for her 10 children, aged from 14 years  to four months.

Along with disability living allowance, carer’s allowance, tax credits and income support, the family’s income rises to £44,954.

The family also benefit from a £950-a-week bed and breakfast deal, which is said to equate to £49,400 per year.

Mrs Smith told the News of The World: “It’s not really that much money we get. It’s certainly not enough for all of us.”

A spokesman for Bath and North East Somerset Council said it had a legal duty to rehouse the homeless children and the bed-and-breakfast deal was just a “temporary” arrangement.

Campaign group the Taxpayers’ Alliance said it was disgraceful they received such a large sum.

Spokesman Emma Boon said: “It cannot be right that there are so many cases where couples are getting a lot more than the average working family.”