AutisticMumTo3 She/Her or They/ThemDec 3, 2024
Labour must raise benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again' www.bigissue.com/news/social-... #Labour #NHS #WaitingLists #DWP #BenefitRates #Sanctions #GetBritainWorking #FoodBankBritain #FoodBanks #BenefitClaimants #Benefits #UniversalCredit #LongTermSick #Disabled #Poverty

Labour must increase benefits ...
Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Poverty harms people's health and pushes people further away from work – so experts are calling for benefits to be increased.

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OsteoarthriticAutisticDec 3, 2024

Labour must raise benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again'
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-benefits-support-get-britain-working/

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Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Poverty harms people's health and pushes people further away from work – so experts are calling for benefits to be increased.

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VanessaDec 3, 2024

Labour must raise benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again'
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#Poverty

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Poverty harms people's health and pushes people further away from work – so experts are calling for benefits to be increased.

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AutisticMumTo3Dec 3, 2024

Labour must raise benefits if they want to 'get Britain working again'
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/dwp-benefits-support-get-britain-working/

#Labour
#NHS
#WaitingLists
#DWP
#BenefitRates
#Sanctions
#GetBritainWorking
#FoodBankBritain
#FoodBanks
#BenefitClaimants
#Benefits
#UniversalCredit
#LongTermSick
#Disabled
#Poverty

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

Poverty harms people's health and pushes people further away from work – so experts are calling for benefits to be increased.

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AutisticMumTo3Oct 18, 2024

Over half of London working families use food banks, study finds - Big Issue
https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/london-food-banks-working-families-felix-project/

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Over half of London working parents use food banks, study finds: ‘Is this the country we live in?’

More than half of London’s working families have turned to a food bank to help them put food on the table, shocking new research shows.

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AutisticMumTo3Oct 9, 2024

More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds | Food banks | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/09/britons-vulnerable-reliance-food-banks-research-finds

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More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research finds

One million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago

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AutisticMumTo3Jul 4, 2024

Foodbank shuts up shop for the election; the perfect metaphor
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/07/04/foodbank-general-election-shut/

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A foodbank shutting up shop for the election is the perfect metaphor for this political farce

A foodbank site in North London has closed its doors to host the election. There's no better metaphor for this political farce.

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AutisticMumTo3Jul 2, 2024

BBC News: ‘Who do you trust?’ Election struggles to offer hope for food bank Britain - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6p24ene5peo

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‘Who do you trust?’ Election struggles to offer hope for food bank Britain

In food banks across one town, people say they are desperate - and the election is failing to offer hope.

BBC News
BeverleyApr 28, 2024

This is what over a decade of 'Tory mismanagement has done to national life. That schools need to host foodbanks should be regarded as a national scandal, yet it passes unnoticed by the media. It's a DISGRACE!

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/education/news/2024/new-research-reveals-there-are-more-school-based-than-regular-foodbanks-nationwi.html

#foodbanks #foodbankBritain #toriesout

New research reveals there are more school-based than regular foodbanks nationwide

Research shows schools have increasingly stepped in as a fourth emergency service and are now the biggest source of charitable food and household aid for families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.

Joe Pajak (Dr)Dec 5, 2023
'The @TrussellTrust reported record numbers using food banks for 2023 amid #CostOfLivingCrisis.'
'Almost 750,000 people turned to food banks in the past 12 months, with nearly 3 million parcels distributed in 2022-2023.' @EveningStandard
#FoodBankBritain
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/how-help-london-food-banks-cost-living-crisis-b1029806.html
How to help local London food banks this Christmas

Christmas plus the cost of living crisis may see more relying on food banks this winter

Evening Standard