About 3% of families in the UK used a food bank in the year to March 2022.
Food banks receive donated non-perishable food and other essential items which volunteers then sort into parcels which can be given to those in need.
In total, 14.4 million people were estimated to be in relative low-income households - with below 60% of average household income - in the year to March 2022, up from the 13.4 million in March 2021 and close to the 14.5 million the year before, as the Covid pandemic hit. "Families need a proper benefits system that protects them from hardship, and means children can grow up without having to know what the inside of a food bank looks like," she said.
Andrew Forsey, national director of Feeding Britain, called for the government to reduce the rate of monthly deductions from Universal Credit - made to repay debts - describing them as a poverty tax.
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