Exclusive: charities report influx of middle-income families during Covid pandemic
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Food aid charities have identified the emergence of the UK’s “newly hungry” – a growing cohort of people previously in good jobs and enjoying comfortable incomes who have been forced to use food banks and claim welfare benefits for the first time during the pandemic.
The Feeding Britain network said its members were providing food support to a new influx of middle-income families. Typically with mortgages, cars, and often self-employed or business owners, they had been plunged into crisis by Covid-related job losses and gaps in the social security system.
