'500,000' reliant on food banks
More than half a million people are now reliant on food banks, charities have said as they called on MPs to investigate the impact of benefit cuts.
Mother: Queues so big my food bank opens twice a day
Single mum Jack Monroe, who visits her local food bank once a week, said she finds it an "astounding claim" that the Government believes there is no direct correlation between the increase in the number of people visiting food banks and benefit cuts.
Speaking to Daybreak she said: "The queues at our local food bank have got so great that they are now opening twice a day, and that came in about April [time], and that was in line with the bedroom tax and harder benefit sanctions."
She added, "the biggest surprise for me is the number of people turning up in their work uniforms".
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