[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

I have time for people that find themselves in genuine need but there are plenty that use food banks so they can spend their benefits on drink drugs and fags.

They have to have a referral though, from jobcentre, or social or something like that. Its not just a shop they rock up at and get free stuff, thus freeing money for other things.

Also, you can only get a couple of referrals per year apparently.

So the amount of people using foodbanks as free shopping to buy more alcohol and stuff, is minuscule if anything. And they cannot do it repeatedly anyway..