Quotas for food bank vouchers at job centres?

Just when you thought the Coalition really, really couldn’t get any worse, they find a new way of making you sick. Is there really no end to this government’s cruelty, it’s inhumanity, it’s need to persecute and degrade the very poorest?

Ann McGauran

Is an unofficial quota system for food bank vouchers operating at job centres? One man who called into a food bank in this London borough recently said he was told by his job centre that they’d given out 15 vouchers already that week. Persuading the staff there that he was in need was hard work. He said he did get a voucher eventually, but his experience begs a question. How many people in genuine need of an emergency supply of food are now being refused a food voucher by job centres?

There’s already a substantial level of need in this borough – a fairly typical one for London, with its pockets of deprivation. Between April 1 2013 and the end of January this year, Trussell Trust food banks in the borough fed 3,225 people (1937 adults and 1288 children). There was a month on month increase in clients from the…

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