Worcester foodbank supervisor hits out at two-child profit cap | EUROtoday

A foodbank supervisor has criticised the UK’s two-child profit cap and stated many households in Worcester are scuffling with meals poverty.

Graham Lucas, supervisor of Worcester Foodbank, spoke out as 11 charities together with the nationwide foodbank charity, Trussell, wrote to Chancellor Rachel Reeves urging her to make a dedication in subsequent week’s spending evaluate to abolish the restrict.

He stated in Worcester “an awful lot of families just haven’t got sufficient money” to pay for family necessities.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), which stated it was “determined to bring down child poverty”, is predicted to announce its resolution on the cap in autumn.

The letter despatched by the charities to the chancellor claimed the two-child restrict has pulled 37,000 youngsters into poverty because the authorities took workplace.

“The cap was not the right thing to be doing. It hits families unfairly and just causes them more problems with poverty, and particularly food poverty,” Mr Lucas continued.

“We see at ground level and particularly see it in Worcester, a large number of families that are struggling, families that don’t have enough income.

“The two-child profit cap simply exacerbates that and causes extra households to be in meals poverty and… roughly 40% of the individuals we feed are youngsters.”

Mr Lucas said rising food costs had been a key problem and the cost-of-living crisis generally had caused more people to seek help.

The BBC has approached the DWP for a response to Mr Lucas’s feedback.