3% of families in the UK

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at least 2.1 million people - used a food bank in the year to March 2022, according to official government figures

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it's criminal in the 5th richest country on earth where per capita everyone is worth 50kpa this is truly shameful yet we accept this and normalise their use..
 
at least 2.1 million people - used a food bank in the year to March 2022, according to official government figures

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it's criminal in the 5th richest country on earth where per capita everyone is worth 50kpa this is truly shameful yet we accept this and normalise their use..
I wouldn't be surprised if there's single income families where parent earns £50k still being forced into using foodbanks at the moment

With rapidly increasing mortgage rates, food prices and fuel bills, even above average earners are really feeling it. Especially where they have stretched themselves when taking out mortgages.
 
at least 2.1 million people - used a food bank in the year to March 2022, according to official government figures

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it's criminal in the 5th richest country on earth where per capita everyone is worth 50kpa this is truly shameful yet we accept this and normalise their use..
I would like to see the figures for the last 12 months, It will be a lot higher than that.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if there's single income families where parent earns £50k still being forced into using foodbanks at the moment

With rapidly increasing mortgage rates, food prices and fuel bills, even above average earners are really feeling it. Especially where they have stretched themselves when taking out mortgages.
Childcare costs too, which you'd imagine are essential for a single parent family. £75 a day ours is now (in the north as well).
 
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Foodbanks are good, people who donate to foodbanks are good, people need help. - all these things are true.

What is also true at the same time is.. we are not 1980's Africa suffering drought, this is 2023 and the ruling class are becoming richer and richer whilst HARD WORKING FAMILIES cannot afford to eat. We are not in the war, we are not talking about folks who spend too much of flat screen televisions etc etc etc.. the general cost of living is becoming unaffordable.

The social mobility ladder is being pulled up and as much as folks who are doing alright for themselves right now can laugh and point and sneers at our underclass.. you are not in control of that ladder, it will not stop at you.
 
at least 2.1 million people - used a food bank in the year to March 2022, according to official government figures

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it's criminal in the 5th richest country on earth where per capita everyone is worth 50kpa this is truly shameful yet we accept this and normalise their use..
Those Food Bank user stats 25,899 in 2008/09 rising to 2,173,158 in 2021/22 are a great example of tory Progression.
Doris would probably find it an excuse for another party if he still held the reins.
 
I'm pretty sure there a couple of people on FMTTM who volunteer at a Foodbank. It must be an awful experience at times seeing how distressed and desparate some people have become. Through no fault of their own mostly too.

Foodbanks are the response to delibrate Tory attacks on people. England is the only country in the world with a Two Child Policy, the only place where you're penalised for having a spare room (just because of circumstances) and the only place where your local authority has suffered almost 70% cuts from government. Wages have been kept low on purpose for a decade and now inflation is making people even poorer and unable to afford basic stuff.

None of the above applies if you have capital or financial wealth of course. The Tories have seen to that be gutting the economy since the 80's and making it easy for the rich.
 
Or as the Daily Mail would write it as a headline

97% of Families in UK Food Bank Free!!!

Figures released today show over 97% of UK families didn’t require the use of a food bank in 2022. Lee Anderson a spokesman for the government said this is amazing news and shows just how well we have recovered since lockdown. Anderson also added that he believed that the 3% that did use a food bank did so because either they were new to the country (i.e here illegally) or had just called in to see what they could get for free after going to McDonald’s.
 
One of the few growth industries. I wouldn’t put it past the tories to be looking for a way to privatise them, remove charitable status and tax them for food laundering 😉
 
Can anyone come up with a case study of someone who is collecting all the benefits they are entitled to and cannot afford to buy food? We hear all these numbers about how people must be desperate, and how nurses on full time wages and free childcare and family credit still can't afford the basics of life, and who am I to doubt it. But has anyone got a proper set of figures of an ordinary hard working family's income including benefits, and a list of what they are spending it on, just so those of us a bit better off can see in detail what the problem is and perhaps what we can do to help?
 
Can anyone come up with a case study of someone who is collecting all the benefits they are entitled to and cannot afford to buy food? We hear all these numbers about how people must be desperate, and how nurses on full time wages and free childcare and family credit still can't afford the basics of life, and who am I to doubt it. But has anyone got a proper set of figures of an ordinary hard working family's income including benefits, and a list of what they are spending it on, just so those of us a bit better off can see in detail what the problem is and perhaps what we can do to help?
People are skint and can't afford food, donate food and or your time
 
Can anyone come up with a case study of someone who is collecting all the benefits they are entitled to and cannot afford to buy food? We hear all these numbers about how people must be desperate, and how nurses on full time wages and free childcare and family credit still can't afford the basics of life, and who am I to doubt it. But has anyone got a proper set of figures of an ordinary hard working family's income including benefits, and a list of what they are spending it on, just so those of us a bit better off can see in detail what the problem is and perhaps what we can do to help?
You clearly have no idea.
 
People are skint and can't afford food, donate food and or your time
At risk of banging my head against a brick wall, if people are skint and can't afford food it is because - by definition - they have spent the money they have got, on something else. If we know how much money they have coming in, and what it's being spent on, then it would be easier to know what to do about it.

I'm not talking about the hardship caese of people who have lost their job and benefits haven't come in yet or who had impossible-to-presict major expenses. I'm puzzled by people on regular income and full benefits who can't manage, and I am more than willing to be told why this is happening. Numbers would help.
 
I was on a ‘ seeing is believing’ tour in East Midlands recently.
The great and the good of the business community touring Nottingham looking at food banks and community larders (where people can buy food cheaper)

it was staggering to see those in foodbanks.
I had conversations with most of these business leaders.

A senior director of a National bank - I read about this stuff and think I’m aware. Then I work with people like me and socialise with people like me. Today it has hit home.

Senior Lawyer - the amount of people I have seen who are clearly in work (lanyards showing) is so upsetting.


What are they spending their money on?
Rent
Mortgages
Caring for family members

It sad that someone wants an itemised list of expenses - why?
These people, in the main, are humble and skint.
Let’s help them
 
I'm puzzled by people on regular income and full benefits who can't manage, and I am more than willing to be told why this is happening. Numbers would help.

Because wages are sh1te,
Because there are no rent controls and landlords are allowed to increase their rents on a whim- and a lot have done so.
Because work is insecure and people lose their jobs regularly
Because part time work is the best a lot of people can get
Because there are no benefits for third or subsequent kids
Because people are penalised for having a spare room.
Because people have disabilities and cannot work.
And there are a lot more reasons but the biggest one is a Tory government.

It sad that someone wants an itemised list of expenses - why
people who use food banks are probably the best budgeters around- because they absolutely need to be
 
At risk of banging my head against a brick wall, if people are skint and can't afford food it is because - by definition - they have spent the money they have got, on something else. If we know how much money they have coming in, and what it's being spent on, then it would be easier to know what to do about it.

I'm not talking about the hardship caese of people who have lost their job and benefits haven't come in yet or who had impossible-to-presict major expenses. I'm puzzled by people on regular income and full benefits who can't manage, and I am more than willing to be told why this is happening. Numbers would help.
You sound like 30p Lee
 
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