article_snippet.sent: Claims by the country's biggest food bank network that the country's biggest food bank network served a million hungry people in a year were exposed as false yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: After the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress seized on the figure, with shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves describing it as 'shocking', The Trussell Trust admitted in a climbdown that 'these are not all unique users'.
article_snippet.sent: The Trussell Trust emerged last night that The Trussell Trust true number of users is likely to be no more than half a million – and possibly lower still.
article_snippet.sent: The Trussell Trust emerged last night that the true number of food bank users is likely to be no more than half a million.
article_snippet.sent: The claim was widely reported by newspapers, while the BBC ran a headline on the BBC website stating: 'Food banks used by "more than one million people".'
article_snippet.sent: The Trussell Trust admitted that fewer than half The Trussell Trust claimants come forward only once, and 15 per cent make more than three visits to a food bank in a year.
article_snippet.sent: Claims by The Trussell Trust that The Trussell Trust served a million hungry people in a year were exposed as false yesterday .
article_snippet.sent: One fact-checking think-tank, Full Fact, said last night: 'The claim that over a million people are using The Trussell Trust food banks is inaccurate. '
article_snippet.sent: It comes from confusing the number of different people using Trussell Trust food banks in a year with the number of times they use the food banks.'
highlights_snippet.sent: The Trussell Trust admits that the one million were not all 'unique users'
  The Trussell Trust had previously claimed that The Trussell Trust served a million hungry people in a year .
  