More than a million of the UK’s poorest people are regularly struggling to pay for food and are in “severe financial trouble”, and most do not believe politicians care about helping them.
More than a third of people in the poorest households with annual incomes below £16,999 have occasionally struggled to pay for food while a fifth find it a regular problem.
Many have very little savings to act as a buffer. A quarter said they had less than £350 set aside in case of an emergency.
Just over a third said they had been unable to pay a household bill since the beginning of the pandemic.
37% said they were worried about losing their jobs in the near future.
More than 1m people in UK regularly struggle to afford food, report finds | Society | The Guardian
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