Ben Robinson, 25, who works for a housing charity in Brixton, south London, and Frankie Brown, 24, a teacher, were at the protest.
Brown said: "Every day I have got kids in my class who are going home to homes where they don't have enough to eat."
Robinson said: "We've got residents who are coming into our offices who are choosing between feeding their own kids, not themselves, their own kids, and paying rent and heating, and that is just not a choice that anyone should have to face, you know, in the fourth biggest economy in the world."
He added: "I don't think there's enough recognition in the government, actually, how bad things are going to be and really are for people, real people who don't have enough money.
"And the growing disparity between the very richest in society and the other 99% of people who just don't have enough to get by, so hopefully this outlines that, but who knows?"
