The food bank is packed and essential donations keep coming as the Invercargill Salvation Army prepares for the end of the Government wage subsidy in September. But a Salvation Army financial mentor warns people may be too quick to take drastic financial measures when faced with hard times. Invercargill Salvation Army lieutenant Veronica Rivett said just as many people were coming for financial mentoring as they were for the food bank at the moment. “Because we know that when the wage subsidy ends, we’re expecting an influx of need,” Rivett said. During and since Covid-19, Salvation Army financial mentor Darlene Coomer said there had been a 50 per cent increase in people looking for financial guidance and was currently seeing three or four people a day.

Source: Stuff August 01, 2020 23:48 UTC