Other shoppers get annoyed and abusive at getting delayed. Some stores in the UK are introducing special checkouts for voucher holders which makes them publicly stigmatised and humiliated. A food voucher system is wide open to discriminatory practice and pressure from unfriendly civil servants. In the UK sometimes stores will not allow purchase of orange juice or yoghurt, deodorant or underwear as they are not seen as essential. When people pick branded goods instead of the supermarket's own brand they are told off.
People sharing a fridge with other lodgers have problems with storing all their week's supplies.
The preliminary victims of direct provision are to be refugees and asylum seekers. The government wants you to believe that they have all come here to sponge off the Irish community welfare system, whereas in reality they are fleeing war, famine, oppression and desperate economic circumstances in their own countries. The Anti-Racism Campaign believes the introduction of food vouchers is discriminatory, unconstitutional and cruel. We believe it could be the first step to introducing direct provision into the Irish social welfare system in general, as in the UK and America. This is exactly half the amount of money given to Irish homeless people put in similar accommodations.