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One in seven Brits faced hunger due to lack of money, research suggests
Stocks of food, as One in seven people in the UK faced hunger in the last year due to a lack of money, new research suggests

ONE in seven people across Britain faced hunger last year amid plummeting take-home pay, with ethnic minorities, disabled people and carers the hardest hit, shocking new research reveals.

A whopping 11.3 million people were thought to have been affected in 2022, the Trussell Trust survey shows.

The organisation, which runs more than 1,200 foodbanks across the country, described its findings as “just the tip of the iceberg.”

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