'It's not fair to suspend money like this,' she fumes. 'Is it right to do that? No! Every time I go to sign on, they come up with something... all the time. I am so cross! So cross!'
Luckily, help is at hand in the form of the Unity Centre, a community development charity with branches all over the UK.
In Rotherham, much of the development work involves helping newcomers to settle in, which as translator Mikel explains, often means helping them claim benefits.
'Katerina comes here quite often,' he explains. 'We try to help her with making phonecalls or filling in forms.'
He adds: 'She has been suspended a few times from the JSA [jobseekers allowance] payments and the reason is that she is not actively looking for a job.
'The problem with them is that they have been here a long time but they are not mixing with non Roma people. You have to go out there and try to learn English.'