Looking forward to joining Edinburgh Community Food event on Tackling Food Insecurity: A Cash First Approach Journey #MenuforAll #CashFirstToolkit

🧵Critical data from Department for Work and Pensions #FamilyResourcesSurvey on #foodinsecurity just released. There's been a 2% increase in severe and moderate #foodinsecurity comparing #FRS data from 2019-20 to 2022-23 with 17% of households reporting severe, moderate or marginal #foodinsecurity

🚨OUT TODAY: New paper on payments and the poverty premium.

👇🧵Payment methods create a poverty premium with people charged more for the way they spend their own money.

As food inflation hits 19.1% and #foodinsecurity soars, the tools for deep systemic change are at our fingertips. Governments must prioritise both a #cashfirst approach and enforceable socio-economic rights including the #RightToFood to turn the tide...
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Our latest data (ifanuk.org/3jAOeic) in The Independent Adam Forrest
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“We cannot continue to normalise a crisis, volunteer-led response to entrenched and rapidly worsening poverty in our society.' #CashFirst

Independent food bank teams say urgent action must be taken in January to increase people's incomes as debts mount up and poverty spirals out of control.
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Our latest data ➡️ ifanuk.org/3I7CmOW
blackcountryfoodbank Dads House OneCanTrust foodbank #CashFirst

'As inflation figures climb steeply, the message is clear. People’s incomes whether through benefit payments or wages must be increased..' Sabine Goodwin #CashFirst
Our latest data - ifanuk.org/3g53imR
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As inflation figures soar, independent food banks are running out of options.
'People’s incomes whether through benefit payments or wages must be increased...' #CashFirst
Our latest data has just been published.
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