Emergency Food Banks Stretched As More And More People Struggle To Pay Their Bills

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 23: Volunteers Maureen Wiltshire (L) and Lydia Higham put a selection of tinned food together for a client at a Food Bank depot at St. Paul's Church in Brixton on October 23, 2012 in London, England. The need for food banks has increased with around three depots opening across the UK each week. The Trussell Trust, the charity running food banks, have said that record numbers of people have required emergency food over the last six months and they expect to feed 200,000 over the next year. Vulnerable people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds, many of whom have fallen out of the benefit system and have no other way to feed themselves and their families, are using food banks. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)