I live off £30 a month’: Nearly 4 million people in UK experienced ‘destitution’ last year

I live off £30 a month’: Nearly 4 million people in UK experienced ‘destitution’ last year

Destitution - it's a word almost from another age, conjuring visions of desperate, grinding poverty. But it is a fact of life right now , for increasing numbers of people, according to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation thinktank.