There are serious problems with actually getting to full-time minimum wage work; there's a lot of controversy over the so-called "zero hour" contracts where people are not guaranteed any minimum amount of shifts, and because the shifts are on-demand it's not compatible with another job.

(Having said that, all the example people mentioned in the article are there from forms of "mental health" issues; "mental breakdown"/abused child leaving 'care'/bad divorce)

Then there's the huge numbers of families in "temporary" accomodation. It's so bad that even the Grenfell survivors are in this state: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/29/100-househol...