Failed Asylum Swindlers Are Paid £1,594,600 Cash per Month
the facts | 19.10.2009 14:52 | Migration
Asylum seekers who refuse to leave the country after their applications for ‘asylum’ in Britain have been turned down, are paid over £1.5 million per month in cash support, in addition to other free benefits and services including housing and medical.
The total bill, once housing, medical, education, clothing and free rates and utilities are factored in, pushes the amount up into the tens of millions every month.
The shocking figures were revealed in a report from Glasgow which said that more than a thousand failed ‘asylum seekers’ are living there on ‘emergency support’.
This ‘emergency support’ consists of £35 worth of government-issued supermarket vouchers every week. They are given to ‘asylum seekers’ who have “exhausted the appeals process and officially declared themselves destitute.”
According to figures released by the UK Borders Agency, there were 11,390 such cases officially registered as the end of July. This translates to payments of £398,650 per week, or £1,594,600 per month.
These vouchers do not include all the other benefits to which these “Section 4” claimants are entitled.
They also qualify for free furnished and repair free accommodation. They pay no council tax, rent, or water rates and also enjoy free gas and electricity.
Furthermore, they are given free NHS medical treatment, free maternity allowances (about £6,000 a birth), free dentistry, free spectacles and free education (nursery, school or college).
To add insult to injury, these swindlers, whose stories must have been particularly pathetic and unbelievable not to qualify under the lax system’s requirements, are also given free legal aid to keep fighting for the right to remain in Britain and on benefits.
‘Asylum seekers’ in this country have crossed dozens of safe countries to get here and have therefore abrogated all asylum rights they had under international law.
Asylum conventions allow an asylum seeker to seek refuge in the first neighbouring safe country — and no other.
The shocking figures were revealed in a report from Glasgow which said that more than a thousand failed ‘asylum seekers’ are living there on ‘emergency support’.
This ‘emergency support’ consists of £35 worth of government-issued supermarket vouchers every week. They are given to ‘asylum seekers’ who have “exhausted the appeals process and officially declared themselves destitute.”
According to figures released by the UK Borders Agency, there were 11,390 such cases officially registered as the end of July. This translates to payments of £398,650 per week, or £1,594,600 per month.
These vouchers do not include all the other benefits to which these “Section 4” claimants are entitled.
They also qualify for free furnished and repair free accommodation. They pay no council tax, rent, or water rates and also enjoy free gas and electricity.
Furthermore, they are given free NHS medical treatment, free maternity allowances (about £6,000 a birth), free dentistry, free spectacles and free education (nursery, school or college).
To add insult to injury, these swindlers, whose stories must have been particularly pathetic and unbelievable not to qualify under the lax system’s requirements, are also given free legal aid to keep fighting for the right to remain in Britain and on benefits.
‘Asylum seekers’ in this country have crossed dozens of safe countries to get here and have therefore abrogated all asylum rights they had under international law.
Asylum conventions allow an asylum seeker to seek refuge in the first neighbouring safe country — and no other.
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