Barclays has advised customers to seek help from friends and family or even contact food banks after a major IT meltdown.

For more than 24 hours, Barclays customers have been thrown into chaos as a significant outage struck the bank, leaving countless individuals locked out of their accounts. The outage began on Friday – payday for many people across the UK – with users unable to verify if wages had been deposited.

The disruption has led to a wave of discontent among clients, prompting them to…