The manager of a Welsh food bank claims the cost-of-living crisis has become so severe that people are turning up in suits to receive emergency parcels. Reverend Dean Roberts, who runs Caerphilly-based charity The Parish Trust, said he has seen queues "down the street" for support with some brought to tears as a result of their financial and emotional hardship.
Speaking on the Sunday programme on Radio 4, Rev Roberts said he had seen a huge increase in the number of people requesting food parcels in his community for the first time. "Prior to maybe a month or so ago, we had a lot of regulars who were coming to us because of the furlough scheme, Covid, that sort of thing. But now we're starting to see more and more people from a wider cross-section of society coming to ask for help and it's quite worrying."
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