The government is getting job centre staff to send people to the trussell trust for food parcels.
The government stated it was only people who were refused crisis loans that were being sent to the trussell trust with a voucher for a food parcel.
But the government announced they intend to scrap crisis loans -that people pay back (for people who have hit a short term crisis e.g. child in hospital, flooding).
The are recommending that councils in England get the money instead and also recommending that instead of actually giving out crisis loans that councils send people to the trussell trust for food parcels instead www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/social-fund-localisation-call-for-evidence.pdf
There were 2.69 million crisis loans given out in england last year.
So I guess this means the job centre won't only be giving those refused crisis loans money for food parcels but the job centre staff will be kept extremely busy as they will have to handle sending at least 2.69 million families to the trussell trust next year to queue for food parcels (with no fresh meat, no fresh milk, no fresh veg, no fresh bread) instead of borrowing a small amount in an emergency (and paying it back) to allow families to pay for fresh food when crisis and unexpected expense strikes.
So if you are on benefits and your child falls ill and ends up in hospital and you have to spend your benefits taking your child to hospital and visiting them in hospital - remember and leave time to trapse your children to the next town to collect your food parcel with no nutrition to help your child recover from their illness.
Let's go back to war time rations
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Government abolishing DWP Crisis Loans
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BeingAMumIsFun · 31/07/2011 15:02
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