"I met a lady the other day who said 'I've been on disability benefits for years and I've always managed. But now, ends just don't meet, I can't make the figures add up'."
The story was recounted today by Emma Shepherd, project manager of the Trussell Trust's Cardiff Foodbank and her tale is no doubt re-told up and down the country by thousands of others in the same predicament.
In the worst cost-of-living crisis in modern times, Trussell Trust has issued its first ever emergency appeal today and is calling on the UK Government to provide support for those on low incomes, although following the resignation of Prime Minister Liz Truss on October 20, the Government will, once again, be entering a period of severe turbulence.