If you are not on benefits and use such a bank to feed your family then you are a tragic victim of the heartless self-serving, middle England hating government. If you use these banks to feed your family and you are on benefits, then you are a lazy scrounger, afraid to work and happy to get something for nothing even if you are not entitled.

What a total bunch of....MAIL READERS... in the comments, the article quotes from a working family, forced to use the food bank due to illness, yet all the top rated comments are about booze and cigs.

I think what most peopel don't realise is that even the genuinely sick are being kicked off their benefits not just the fakers. I am all for kicking the fakers off benefits but there are people who are genuinely ill particularly with mental illnesses who simply cannot work and are having their benefits removed and being told that they are fit even although this goes against all medical advice. If you are mentally ill you are not fit to look for a job therefore you do not qualify for jobseekers. I have worked my whole life and paid my taxes but should I fall ill I am sure there will be no benefits for me. There are people receiving chemotherapy who have been told that they are fit to work this cannot be right. Like I say I am totally in favour of removing the wasters and the feckless from the benefit system but I strongly believe that is NOT who is being hit. They have social workers and all sorts fighting their corner most of us do not.

- I am only saying, UK, 21/4/2012 3:59 293

Did you know the private company ATOS have found people with terminal cancer fit for work ??

- Hagar , Blackpool, 21/4/2012 9:00 246

It is true that, according to government statistics, 55 per cent of incapacity benefit claimants have been reassessed as Fit for Work in Brentwood, justifying the Mail’s headline.

But it is important to remember that this figure of 55 per cent is the highest in the report, with some areas as low as 17 per cent (Bexley and Wealden), 18 per cent (Ribble Valley, Greenwich and Surrey Heath) and 19 per cent (Perth & Kinross).

It is also dangerous to dub Brentwood the "skiving capital of Britain" based on a sample of only around 60 cases - one the smallest caseload figures across all 390 areas in the study. There is also no data to indicate whether these individuals are fraudulently 'skiving' work or whether this is just a result of more stringent assessment criteria.

What a shower! Business hires seven jobless people... but none turned up for work because it RAINED

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1t9ROzF25

Here we go again, people in this country just don't want to work because they get more on benefit.

Looking at the facts the guy was offering a job paying £6.08 a week for a 35 hour week, but then he adds a catch by saying new staff need to work on probation for £100 a week and it cost £5 a day to get to work. Presumably at the end of the probation period he can just get rid of the staff and recruit another set of mugs.

Being under the minimum wage isn't that also illegal?

The jobseekers who failed to turn up will not lose their benefits because the basic pay is under the minimum wage.

As a 'telesales executive', too. So, net £10-15 per day to cold-call and be sworn at/abused under pressure of sales targets. Fuck that.