That one person should be hungry because the state has failed to deliver the minimum income needed for healthy living is an offence against the Lord; Matthew 25:45; “whatever you did not do… you did not do for me”. But the state is not even trying to deliver such an income. It is by a series of oppressive policies making people mentally and physically ill. Frank Field and Andrew Forsey (“Marketplace for need”, 15 August) set out the steps churches have to take when the state fails to provide the minimum income for necessities and affordable shelter for us all. But now it is even worse than it was when the APPG enquiry into hunger and food poverty published its report. There is now a deeper clash between magistrates’ fines and Jobcentre sanctions. Fines