Soldato
Is the rise in numbers visiting food banks due to poverty or because there are more food banks and they give food away for free?
i'd imagine a good number of people using foodbanks are indeed needing the support,
i'd also imagine an even bigger number see it as something for nothing and leaves them more money to spend on fags booze and sky tv
“Since, I think 2010, the number of people relying on food banks has gone up from the tens of thousands to the millions.”
BBC Question Time audience member, 27 April 2017
Spend your £20 on some weed and call in at the food bank for tea, or spend frugally?Is the rise in numbers visiting food banks due to poverty or because there are more food banks and they give food away for free?
The kind of question asked by someone who wants to believe poverty doesnt exist in the UK.
I doubt they're going learn much from some of the Daily Fail like comments already posted.What a stupid comment. How can somebody educate themselves if asking the question is met with responses like this.
I doubt they're going learn much from some of the Daily Fail like comments already posted.
I doubt they're going learn much from some of the Daily Fail like comments already posted.
Jobcentre staff have been ordered not to refer universal credit claimants to food banks, in a move campaigners have said is preventing vulnerable people from getting vital help and “hiding” those who are in need.
Food bank volunteers in Lewes in East Sussex have told The Independent people in need of support were “slipping through the net” after the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) issued the local jobcentre with a national directive stating they were no longer able to refer people.
The DWP (1) has banned local job centre staff from referring people to foodbanks for emergency food supplies.
Benefit claimants can often be left destitute because their money is not due to be paid for another month, or because their claim has not yet been decided or for other reasons, so a referral can often be vital if people are to keep body and soul together.
Now they will not be referred. Instead they will be told to go to the Citizens Advice Bureau or similar agencies that may be able to refer them. This means further delay and some difficult journeys for people in outlying parts of the district.
The kind of question asked by someone who wants to believe poverty doesnt exist in the UK.
Did someone call?Don’t worry, those Guardian readers.. bastions of the righteous truth will be along shortly.
Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, has conceded that the rollout of universal credit has contributed to an increase in food bank use, going back on previous ministerial claims that this was not the case.
Brexit will reduce the number of people using food banks