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Two million people on Universal Credit forced to skip meals
TWO million people are now so deep in poverty that they are skipping meals and even going without food for a day, foodbank charity the Trussell Trust has revealed.
New research by the organisation, published today, shows that the cost-of-living crisis is forcing families into hunger even before next month’s government-approved 80 per cent rise in energy prices takes effect.
The trust said the crisis was having a “devastating impact on people forced to survive on the lowest incomes.”
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