beggary

/ˈbɛɡəri/

noun

A state of extreme poverty.

they have no benefits to stand between them and beggary

poverty,penury,destitution,ruin,ruination,indigence,impecuniousness,impoverishment,need,neediness,privation,want,hardship,distress,difficulties,dire straits,reduced circumstances,straitened circumstances,mendicancy,vagrancy