UK food banks dish out over THREE MILLION parcels in record-high year

The number of emergency food parcels handed out across the UK in a single year has reached its highest level, at more than three million.
The Trussell Trust food bank network said the figures had risen for packages for both adults and children and the total is now almost double that of five years ago.
There were 3,121,404 parcels distributed by food banks in its network up to the end of March, made up of 1,977,308 for adults and 1,144,096 for children.
The charity said first-time users - of which there were 655,000 in that 12-month period - were down slightly on last year but up 40% from five years ago.
Parcels going to households that had someone of pension age living there were up by more than a quarter (27%) to 179,000, the organisation said, noting that older people, especially renters, were “finding themselves unable to afford essentials and facing hunger and severe hardship”.
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[@Scitch-et4vk]

Scroungers

[@marcuspd477]

Correct. Record numbers of feckless Gimmedats who will take as much free stuff as they can, to pay for their nails, smartphones, leased cars, Sky Sports, drink, drugs, cigarettes, takeaways, foreign holidays and designer clothes. Food is cheap in this country if you make it from scratch. Anyone claiming to not be able to afford it, is either lying or stupid and unable to prioritise.

[@vtechead1]

Too many people using these food banks that don’t need to. Fruit and veg is being sold for pences these days in supermarkets.
Some of them get £30 worth of groceries foe £5 and sell them on for drugs and alcohol. The foid bank system is out of control and giving food to those that can well afford it, leaving less for those who genuinely need help.

[@jimorr5580]

Showing a lot of Ignorance and disrespect as most now using food banks are low paid workers

[@marcuspd477]

@@jimorr5580 Cobblers. Record numbers of feckless Gimmedats who will take as much free stuff as they can, to pay for their nails, smartphones, leased cars, Sky Sports, drink, drugs, cigarettes, takeaways, foreign holidays and designer clothes. Food is cheap in this country if you make it from scratch. Anyone claiming to not be able to afford it, is either lying or stupid and unable to prioritise.

[@angh18]

@@jimorr5580 Awful, even Nurses.