The living cost crisis has hit families across the UK, and now its toll has been reflected in an alarming rise in the number of homeless veterans.
During the pandemic, rough sleepers were brought in off the streets as councils made efforts to adapt to lockdown.
But since then, as Covid-19 restrictions eased, vulnerable veterans have been ‘slipping through the net’.
Since March 2020, organisations have reported a 50% jump in the number of former Armed Services personnel becoming homeless, or at risk of becoming so.
The already worrying numbers are set to rise further as the cost of living skyrockets.
Richard Gammage, CEO of veteran charity Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation (Stoll), explained ‘without action, the situation could get much worse.’