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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Noah Vickers

More than half of low-paid Londoners report using foodbanks in last year

More than half of the almost 600,000 Londoners who do not earn a ‘real living wage’ have had to resort to using a foodbank in the last year, a new report has revealed.

According to polling by Survation, 23 per cent of the capital’s lowest-paid workers have been going to a foodbank as often as once a week or more, with a further 28 per cent saying that they have gone to one at least once in the last year.

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