Day: September 6, 2018

These People Say They’re Going Hungry Because Of The Government’s Welfare Reforms

clatterbane:

In the last six months, the number of people referred to the Trussell Trust’s food banks in Rugby has gone up by 61% compared with the same period in 2015/16. Issues with benefits were the primary reason for getting help in 42% of all cases in the last year, up from 36%.

This picture is reflected nationally too. Food banks in areas of full universal credit rollout have seen a 16% average increase in referrals for emergency food, more than double the national average of 6%, research published by the Trussell Trust on Tuesday shows…

To get emergency food from the Trussell Trust, people have to be referred by another agency, typically debt advisers, GPs, housing associations, charities, and social workers. This means anyone getting help has already been vetted as in need…

However, Rugby’s food banks are not alone in seeing soaring demand for their services because of universal credit. The Trussell Trust has found the same trend across its food banks in places dealing with the full rollout of the new benefit.

The charity’s research found that the six-week wait is leading to debt, mental health issues, rent arrears, and eviction. It also showed that the effects of the delay often last after people receive their first universal credit payments, as bills and debts pile up.

Also, looking just at food bank access? The need for referrals may well also keep people who really need it away. 

He was referred to the food bank by the British Legion a couple of weeks ago but it’s only now that he’s cashing in the voucher. He was too proud to come before, he says.

That’s a common enough thing, unfortunately. How many people are ashamed to seek out a referral to begin with? Besides the added gatekeeping always making it possible for people who do ask for referrals to get turned down. Are they going to be able to seek out referral again? Who knows. I probably couldn’t. 

This gatekeeping hurdle setup has bothered me since I found out about it. Better that maybe a few Undeserving people who aren’t literally starving should have access to food banks than to run things that way and no doubt keep more hungry people away. One ugly side of the whole charity model, but I don’t need to get started into that right now.

Reminded of this, with the last reblog

These People Say They’re Going Hungry Because Of The Government’s Welfare Reforms

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domhnall-na-feannaig:

dracofidus:

dracofidus:

I know we’re all terrified by America right now, but you need to know what is happening in Britain, there’s so much shit going on, but here’s some of the highlights:

The UN have condemned the British government for “grave” failures regarding disabled people’s rights. [x]

There are over half a million people using food banks, because they cannot afford to eat. [x]

The benefits system is declaring people fit to work, ignoring the opinions of their doctors, and refusing them money unless they spend 35 hours a week actively looking for work. These include people with severe disabilities, mental health issues, and people who are literally dying. In fact, around eighty people a month die within six weeks of being declared fit to work by this system. [x]

16.7% of the population is living in poverty, with a further 30% at serious risk of slipping into poverty [x]

Children are suffering from such severe malnutrition they’re having to be treated for rickets. [x]

It’s currently estimated that 1 in 200 people in the UK are homeless. [x]

This is just a tiny snapshot, and I won’t even go into the NHS crisis, because that deserves it’s own massive post.

We’re now deporting people who’ve lived and worked here for decades. We invited a load of commonwealth citizens over, starting in 1948, with the arrival of HMS Windrush, and they became known as the Windrush Generation, but though they were given indefinite leave to remain we didn’t give out any damned paperwork until after 1971 so we’re kicking them out now that they’re old and not paying taxes, despite the fact that most of them came over as children, and that they made lives here, and worked to support this goddamned racist backwater of a country for decades. [x]

It’s always important to remember that both the US and the UK are fucking shiteholes.

The food bank stuff is absolutely horrendous. Idk if it is like this all over but here you can only get 5 Food bank vouchers in a twelve month period and it’s June and people are already on their fifth and like how they supposed to feed they kids over the summer or in the winter? When will we cannibalise old woman Betty and her nasty grandchildren bald willy and his daft class traitor wife cath

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