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You are here: Home / Welsh Food News / Food banks increase as Wales incomes fall £80 per month

Food banks increase as Wales incomes fall £80 per month

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Welsh Food.

Household incomes in Wales fell by an average of £80 per month in one year, official figures have shown.

Office of National Statistics figures from 2009/10 to 2010/11 say average UK weekly income fell from £373 to £359, with average household income in Wales 12% lower than the country as a whole.

At the same time over the past year, the number given food parcels in Wales has reached a record 23,000.

New food banks have been opening to help people in poverty, says a charity.

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