Right now, thousands of families are being made homeless because of benefits capping.
Since April's welfare reforms we've seen more people referred to food banks because of benefit delays or changes".
A bigger number is there because of benefit delays and cuts, or simply because they are no longer able to make their low wages stretch.
This year it has fed more than 240,000 people, many of them experiencing a financial crisis because of benefits sanction or delays.
Among a control group of tenants unaffected by the bedroom tax, far fewer – 56% – said they were cutting back on food because of benefit changes.
The town could also struggle to find homes fast enough for those forced to move because of benefit cuts, he adds.
I would be very uncomfortable if all we did was hand out food, thinking, 'This is nice!'" Last year, 5,017 people were fed by Wandsworth's network of food banks; 24% said they needed help because of benefit delay, 19% because of benefit change, 23% because of low incomes.
You will note there are three slender boxes in the top third of the form which enable the referrer to indicate why they referred the person: because of benefit delay, benefit change, or refusal of crisis loan.
Revenue in the quarter rose 9percentto to $7.37 billion, largely because of benefits resulting from increased data operations and from its formation last year of Cingular Wireless with SBC Communications, to create the nation's No. 2 cellular phone company after Verizon Wireless.
