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[FluffyChicken]

A lot of food bank users are not in 'poverty', but a change of income has caused a need to go there, the money is tied up in car payments, house payments, Retrobike PayPal repayments other payment etc and use them to get by because they can. Which is good. Society helping others rather than making everyone pay for everything.


Yes there are plenty of poverty, the UKs measure of poverty that's classed as about 15% of the population.
Poverty is down since the 90s, though food insecurity, a different measure saw a rapid increase in the past few years.

It's on the gov website somewhere.

Though I'm not quite sure what that has to do with websites and new rules.

 

[The History Man]

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[d8mok]

A lot of food bank users are not in 'poverty', but a change of income has caused a need to go there, the money is tied up in car payments, house payments, Retrobike PayPal repayments other payment etc and use them to get by because they can. Which is good. Society helping others rather than making everyone pay for everything.


Yes there are plenty of poverty, the UKs measure of poverty that's classed as about 15% of the population.
Poverty is down since the 90s, though food insecurity, a different measure saw a rapid increase in the past few years.

It's on the gov website somewhere.

Though I'm not quite sure what that has to do with websites and new rules.

A lot of people live well beyond their means. Average salaries don’t equate to a new car every 3 years , a new build house , 3 holidays a year etc.

And then when something like interest rates rise , or just inflation related costs go up they struggle. Nobody seems to leave themselves wiggle room let alone save anything for a rainy day.

Since I’ve always been performance related in terms of pay I’m very nervous when taking on debt or committing to monthly costs. When buying our house they couldn’t grasp that I only wanted a quarter of my borrowing capacity. Downside is that obviously could live in a much more expensive house / but plus side is I’m not living hand to mouth and have zero debt.

 

[LondonClassic]

Poverty is down since the 90s, though food insecurity, a different measure saw a rapid increase in the past few years.

Poverty in working age adults is the same or slightly worse now than the 90s. Poverty has decreased for pensioners over the last 30 years with child poverty also down slightly. 15% of the population being in poverty (I've seen it measured as high as 21%) is still dreadful - equivalent roughly to populations of Scotland, NI and Wales combined.

You're right, its way off topic....and extremely hard to discuss without falling foul of forum rules on politics...which neatly puts us back ON topic.

 

[chickendrumsticks]

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