Liverpool Echo readers have sent in more than 6,000 e-mails, petition coupons and text messages in support of a woman who faces losing her home over a £34,000 debt to the benefits office.

The debt, owing to the Department of Work and Pensions, was inherited from Christine Irvine’s dead father, who was paid the money when he was alive after being told he was entitled to it.

Now, the Echo readers coupons, together with a dossier of paperwork, official documents and newspaper articles, have been delivered to the office of Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abrahams.

Christine has spent 18 months battling with the Department of Work and Pensions trying to get the debt, incurred through overpayments lasting seven years, written off.

Her plight inspired the Echo’s Write it Off campaign, which is also backed by MP George Howarth.

The 28-year-old said: "I feel like the whole of Merseyside is behind me.

"Reading some of the messages on the website has really pulled at my heart strings.

"This is not my bill and I am not giving up on this."

She should know by the end of this year whether the debt can be written off.