One in seven in UK faced hunger due to lack of money, research suggests
One in seven people in the UK faced hunger in the last year due to a lack of money, new research has suggested, with ethnic minorities, disabled people and carers
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Tag: Food Poverty
Half of Scots skipping meals due to cost-of-living crisis, survey finds
Half of Scots are regularly skipping meals or going without essential foods to cope with the cost-of-living crisis, according to new research. A survey of more than 1,500 adults by
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Scotland and north of England food bank usage highest in UK, official figures show
Food bank usage in Scotland and the north of England is the highest in the UK, according to official figures. The Family Resources Survey, published by the Department for Work
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Quarter of households where an NHS or social care worker live struggling to afford food
The struggle to afford food has affected a quarter of households where an NHS or social care worker lives and more than a fifth where teachers or teaching assistants live,
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Nurses condemn ‘ignorant’ comments from Tory MP over food bank use
Nurses have criticised Conservative MP and former levelling up secretary Simon Clarke for his suggestion that they need to budget better if they are having to rely on food banks.
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Households in fuel poverty expected to reach 8.4 million from April, campaigners predict
The number of households in fuel poverty will increase to 8.4 million from April – up from last October’s 4.5 million – when Government support drops despite spiralling prices, campaigners
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Engage: Austerity gutted the welfare state – preserving benefits now can’t make up for that
Many people on low incomes will have breathed a sigh of relief when the UK Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt announced, in his autumn statement on November 17 2022, that he would
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Government must reverse poverty crisis by boosting child benefit and scrapping cap – report
The Government must “begin reversing the family poverty crisis” by increasing child benefit and making changes to ensure children in larger families are not penalised, a new report warns. Even
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‘Staggering and shameful’ 4 million children in families on Universal Credit in August
More than four million children are living in families which receive Universal Credit, latest figures suggest. Some 4,030,796 children were living in households receiving the benefit as of August, according
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Government must wake up to material insecurity and mental distress doing ‘great harm’ – JRF
The Government must wake up to the twin problems of material insecurity and mental distress, which are doing “great harm” to the economy and individual wellbeing, a charity has said.
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