Those on benefits and in low-income jobs have always struggled as they try to stretch out what little money they have. These people barely manage at the best of the times, so during the worst cost of living crisis in 30 years, how are they supposed to cope now?
It's a question visitors to a food bank in one of the UK's most deprived districts have asked themselves countless times. The answer invariably is that they are not coping, or doing the best they can to keep a roof over their heads and survive, reports BirminghamLive.
The Sparkhill area of Birmingham has one of the highest number of benefit claimants in the country. Deprivation, poverty, a sense of hopelessness and that people here don't matter - it's a daily reality.
