Re: Now you'll know what these barstewards are made of
Originally Posted by
Bruv
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Serious question.........................why is there a need for emergency food supplies in a modern country with a social security safety net ?
Because emergencies happen !
The main causes for people being referred to a foodbank according to Trussel Trust include the following:
Low Income (26,45%)
Benefit Delays (26.01%)
Benefit Changes (16.65%)
Other (8.98%)
Debt (7.78%)
Homeless (5.43%)
Sickness / Ill Health (2.89%)
No recourse to public funds (2.26%)
Domestic Abuse (1.43%)
Delayed Wages (0.97%)
So for example Benefit Delays. A perfectly normal person, with no problems or issues is due to receive benefits, but the benefits system has a back log and it is taking maybe 2 weeks before the case is processed and the person receives the cash. Meanwhile he/she has no money and is stuck. The foodbank helps them span the gap. A TEMPORARY EMERGENCY.
Take another one. Homelessness. A person with say drinking or drug issues has been living on the street but has engaged with the various support agencies in their city. They have helped him/her find accommodation in one of many places that provide it but he/she needs some food to get them up and running.
Another, Domestic Abuse. A woman has been beaten and abused by her husband and has been forced to get out of the house one way or another. She has engaged with one of the support agencies in the city who have found her temporary accommodation and they issue her a food voucher so she can get some parcels from the foodbank during this TEMPORARY EMERGENCY situation.
There are a great many scenarios that can play out.
What we DO NOT HAVE though are millions of people queuing up every day at foodbanks for their permanent source of food.
That is how duplicitous politicians try to present it but it is totally untrue.
People HAVE to be referred to foodbanks and they only get given a FINITE amount of food, typically a few days worth. After that they are refused further food parcels.
The entire ethos is that the foodbanks are purely there to help with
temporary emergencies and if a person needs more food than their allotted few days worth then it is indicative of a deeper problem and so they are sent back to the authority body that originally referred them who then has to resolve the underlying problem by sending the person to the appropriate place.
There is huge misconception about foodbanks and it is being perpetrated by fraudulent politicians looking to score political points. Typically shallow socialist con merchants!