Foodbank WA is regularly helping more than 1000 families per day, with recent interest rate relief failing to ease the unprecedented demand.

The food relief charity is supporting a growing number of employed people living in their cars, according to chief executive Kate O’Hara, who also told of children not attending school because their parents were unable to fill their lunchboxes.

So far this year, the daily tally of households supported by Foodbank WA’s six branches and more than 70 mobile sites has exceeded 1000 on 19 occasions.

This compares to 18 occasions for all of 2024 and just three in 2023, when Foodbank WA reached the 1000-a-day milestone for the first time.

“What we’re seeing more and more is people who have some income flowing into the household, coming to us when they ne

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