End hunger in the UK, #FiveWeeksTooLong, Trussell Trust, foodbanks, campaign, Universal Credit should be fighting poverty, not forcing people to use food banks.

Everyone who applies for Universal Credit has to wait at least five weeks for a first payment – and some people wait longer.

This is leaving many people without enough money to cover the basics. Buying food, for example.

There are other problems with Universal Credit, but the five-week wait is one of the key reasons why food banks like those run by the Trussell Trust have seen a rise in people needing food banks where it has been rolled out.

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