Destitution is rising fast due to Covid and flaws in the benefit system.
Read today’s The Guardian ANALYSIS article about how Britain’s safety nets are being overwhelmed by rapid growth in extreme poverty.
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The Trussell Trust runs the largest network of food banks in the UK, giving emergency food and support to people in crisis. Fourteen million people live below the poverty line and in the last year 1,9 million three-day emergency food supplies were distributed to people in crisis.
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