Family with special needs son being pushed out of home

A STRUGGLING Waterford family with a special-needs child are being pushed by their mortgage lender to sell or move out of their home after losing their fight to hold onto their house.

The family – who gained national sympathy after the courts ordered the repossession of their home – now face being landed with a €100,000 debt after they leave the house.

The mother, Mary (not her real name), of the 17-year-old boy with special needs explained that lender, Stepstone Mortgage Funding, had written to them in recent days reminding them the unemployed family owed nearly €320,000.