'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.
'More than half a million' reliant on food banks
Charities are calling on MPs to investigate the impact of benefit cuts as more than half a million people are now reliant on food banks.
The Government is failing to properly monitor the numbers now resorting to emergency help, Church Action Poverty and Oxfam said.
They suggested that the Commons work and pensions select committee should launch an urgent investigation into "the relationship between benefit delay, error or sanctions, welfare reform changes and the growth of food poverty".
A report by the charities found that up to half of the people seeking help were doing so as a direct result of having benefit payments delayed, reduced or withdrawn.
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