Residents at one of the UK's most deprived estates have given an insight into what life is like amid the rising cost of living.
Families living in Park Wood, Maidstone, are feeling the strain and stocking up on food before supermarket prices rise further.
While some are relying on food banks to survive, with inflation at a 30-year high.
Park Wood is the most deprived neighbourhood in the district ranking 44th out of 902 across the whole of Kent, according to government data.
The index of multiple deprivation government data ranks every area based on income, employment, education, health, crime, barriers to housing and income deprivation to children.
Kent Live visited the estate to see how locals were coping with the cost of living after Chancellor Rishi Sunak gave his spring statement to Parliament on March 23.
Resident Barbara Oliver, 70, told of the sacrifices her family has had to make in recent times.
"We can't live. We're finding it very difficult. Someone gets all our food for us from the local food bank," she said.
"We pay the heating and can barely get the food. It's horrible really. When I used to go shopping you'd think you could fill a trolley for one hundred quid. But now, you can only get a little bit.
"Rishi Sunak is a millionaire, the government should definitely be doing more. He can afford to live and afford to eat his own food, people can't do that around here. I don't have faith in any of them."
Hours before Mr Sunak's speech, the Office for National Statistics revealed that rising prices for energy, goods and food had helped inflation to increase 6.2 per cent in the 12 months to February.
The Chancellor pledged to “stand by” families hit by the crisis and even announced he will cut fuel duty. But people have since been saying how the measures are not enough and that more could have been done.
Resident Jarrod Robinson, 49, said it was an issue that he saw coming.
"I've seen things like gas bills go up recently. I'm concerned about how much it's been going up," he continued.
"Because I've seen this coming for a while, I deliberately stocked up whenever I did my weekly shop at the supermarket.
"I genuinely think this is a scandal of political failure. I saw this coming so why didn't politicians?"
David Dawkins, 58, said he has also noticed a clear rise in prices.
"A lot have things have gone up. I mainly see it when I do my weekly shop at Morrisons," he said.
"These rises are always too much. I've had to put more on my electric and that means I'm having to stock up my food so that I have enough. It just means I'm having to make sure I buy more than I usually would while I'm doing my weekly food shop.
"I definitely don't think the Government are doing enough to help out the people struggling. I've certainly found myself no better off, I'm worse off.
"It's affecting me big time, right now I have no faith in the government to sort it all out."
Mark Bainbridge and Abby Sturgeon, both 33, also spoke on the rising cost of living.
They said: "We're lucky to live within our means. It's pretty tragic to hear the sacrifices people are having to make to get by. You shouldn't have to make those decisions.
"When I was at university we'd wear more clothes so we didn't have to put the heating on, but that's because we were at uni.
"You shouldn't have to be doing that when you're older and have got jobs and things like that.
"I don't think the government are doing enough to help the situation. They could definitely stand by the promises they have made both in the past and now.
"We'll have to see what happens but I think we can't really have faith in them when they don't stand by these promises."
While resident Pam Smith, 79, said she is managing to cope with the rising costs for the time being.
She said: "It's definitely gone up a little bit but at the moment it's not beyond our capabilities of funding it.
"If things do get that bad then we will have to start thinking about making certain precautionary decisions but at the moment we're okay. The government are probably trying to work out how much money they've actually got spare to spend.
"I think I do trust Rishi Sunak to do what is right, but one thing which isn't really mentioned is the cost of living for the disabled too.
"My son, Gordon Bailey, is disabled and it can be difficult. We sometimes have to get a taxi to go to a hospital but the taxi prices have of course gone up. Transport could be a problem."
