mo4ch:>‘Skyrocketing food bank use’: UK families going hungry thanks to welfare cuts, HRW claims | Mo4ch News

In an incendiary new report, Human Rights Watch claims that, through protracted welfare cuts over the last decade, the UK government has abdicated its responsibility to feed its poorest citizens.The report, titled ‘Nothing Left in the Cupboards: Austerity, Welfare Cuts, and the Right to Food in the UK,’ claims that tens of thousands of poor British families have been left without enough food to eat and are forced to rely on charity, food banks and local community initiatives to survive, because successive governments since 2010 have slashed welfare spending by some 44 percent.The report cites a series of austerity-motivated cuts, the introduction of the Universal Credit system – which has delayed payments to those most in need, including many single-parent households led by women – as well as an arbitrary cap on family benefits under the “two-child limit” as major root causes for the growing hunger among the British population.“Often, I have nothing left at the end of the week,” said …