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By Kelly Wickham kelly.wickham@sussexpost.co.uk
to witness the continual rise in the use since 2016, benefit payments have 01243benefit 756170 BrickKilnGardenCentre September were Tel. low income, been frozen while the standard of living of food banks. delay, benefit change and debt. "Low income, high cost of living and continues to rise. People are having April to September was the busiest first six months of the year for food the five week wait for universal credit to wait five weeks or more for their banks in the Trussell Trust network has seen Chichester district food benefits to come through, the advance since the charity opened. This is a 23 bank's first six-month figures rise by 33 allowance throwing people into debt for the first 12 months while they lose per cent increase on the same period in per cent, compared to last year. "In a country where we celebrate state 30 per cent of their benefit to pay it back 2018 - the sharpest increase the charity provision for the NHS and education, and where the benefit cap on housing has seen for the past five years. Joanne Kondabeka, manager of we should not be witnessing food means people have to find the shortfall Chichester District Foodbank, said: "In banks becoming the safety net for a as rents are high in the district." Turn to page three the 21st century we should never have failing welfare state system, where,
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MID-YEAR statistics from a food charity show more people than ever are being forced to use food banks in Chichester. According to the Trussell Trust, a charity which runs 1,200 of the 2,000 food banks in the UK, the top four reasons for referral to a food bank in the Trussell Trust network in April to
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