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a cut to a benefit payment left him struggling. universal credits cut my payments by £300 a month. and i struggled for a while, but i was getting deeper and deeper in debt. i was stressed out. i wasn t talking to anybody. i wasn t doing anything, i was stuck in the house seven days a week, twenty four hours a day. i felt totally embarrassed. i didn t want the family to know how low i d gone. isolated from his loved ones, alan says a food bank became a lifeline. a place of refuge. just the community feeling there the way they looked after you, wrapped their arms around you and said, come on, you re not the only one in this situation. alan is one of many thousands across northern ireland who used a food bank for the first time this year.

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