THE majority of low-paid workers are using foodbanks and more than a third have skipped meals as the cost of living continues to bite, research has found.

The Living Wage Foundation surveyed workers who earn less than the real living wage and found that measures of severe financial hardship remain well above pre-cost-crisis levels.

Sixty per cent were found to have used a foodbank in the last year, up from 56 per cent in the previous year.