Quarter of households regularly run out of money for essentials

It also found nationally 37% of people end the month with no money left over whatsoever, while six percent said they’re trying to survive on incomes so low they can’t pay for essentials most days – with this figure rising to 11% in the UK’s 100 most deprived constituencies.  

Alongside this, even among the ten most affluent constituencies in the UK, 19% say they find themselves unable to pay for the likes of food or bills by the end of most months – rising to 26% of people in the ten most deprived constituencies.  

These figures come from Together Through This Crisis, a new initiative set up by some of the country’s biggest charities and is designed to combat the cost-of-living crisis. Alongside the research, the group has sent an open letter the Prime Minister and Chancellor – backed by charities, campaign groups, metro mayors and more than 38,000 members of the public – asking them to ensure the crisis doesn’t become the new normal.  

It comes as, in its survey – conducted by pollsters Survation – 67% of people nationally described the UK government as “not doing enough” to address the crisis, while 65% said prime minister Rishi Sunak wasn’t doing enough.