d losses BY AMANDA CAMPBELL
What are you cutting back on?
“Food again and heating, can’t afford clothes anyway”
Female, 29, South West England
“I will be cutting back on everything – household needs and kids education, food, driving less to save on the fuel, if something needs to be done then it needs to wait, for example car maintenance, home maintenance, etc”
Male, 25, London and Eastern Counties
“We will need to cut back on everything. We are very worried that we may lose our home as we will not be able to pay the increase in rent and council tax too”
Female, 59, London and Eastern Counties
“Will have to cut back across the board as soon we will be faced with a decision to heat or eat”
25% Male, 33, Wales 20%
“Cutting back on all essentials, food, clothing, bills, washing”
15% Female, 50, Southern Counties 10%
“Will be cutting back on everything including fuel, food especially, and as we already buy our clothes from charity shops, I am not sure what we are going to do. Very worried and anxious”
Male, 56, South East 5% 5% 4% 4% 3% 0% Heating Food Everything Clothing Fuel, car Other Basics Holiday Socialising Essentials Luxuries 2% 2% 2% 18% 14% 24% 23% 30% 47%
Of 3,745 respondents 21% responded they would either be slightly worse off or much worse off
11%
Better Off Not Affected Don’t Know Slightly Worse Off Much Worse Off
10% 2%
24% of those cutting back would cut back on heating and also 23% would cut back on food spending. Based on 752 responses
23 uniteWORKS March/April 2013
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