• The post you are reporting:
   
  Courtesy Independent.......
  
  Hungry Britain: More than 500,000 people forced to use food banks, warns Oxfam
  
  Number has trebled in past 12 months
  
  More than half a million Britons have resorted to using food banks to stave off hunger and destitution,
  
  the Government has been warned.
  
  Major charities signalled their alarm over a dramatic rise in the nation's "hidden hungry" - families
  
  who are forced to ask for help to feed themselves - because of wage cuts, the squeeze on benefits
  
  and the continuing economic downturn. The numbers have trebled in the past year alone and are
  
  likely to continue rising rapidly despite Britain's status as one of the world's wealthiest nations,
  
  according to a joint report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty.
  
  They say cuts to welfare payments - including below-inflation rises in benefits, new Jobseeker's
  
  Allowance sanctions and reassessment of entitlement to invalidity benefits - are the biggest cause
  
  of the surge in demand for food banks in all parts of the country.

Report Post

Your Name

Reason