Cork Penny Dinners says Budget 2024 will make no difference to people on low incomes.
The charity says the rise in minimum wage and three one off energy credit payments won't make any difference and the only thing that will help people is if the cost of living comes down.
Food poverty remains one of the biggest challenges for the soup kitchen in the city who have been meeting more and more parents who cannot afford to feed their children.
Speaking to RedFM News, Caitriona Twomey of Cork Penny Dinners says they still expect more people to come to them for help:
"Everybody that's coming, just you know if they come because they haven't enough to get by. And the one thing that suffers all the time, and we keep saying is, food poverty is always on the rise because people just cannot afford to pay their bills. pay the rent. pay the mortgage, commute to work, do all that they have to do."
