Posted on 09/30/2007 6:41:52 PM PDT by blam
Migrants 'reliant' on benefits
By Duncan Gardham
Last Updated: 1:56am BST 01/10/2007
The degree to which new immigrants rely on benefits and council housing has been revealed by a survey that looks at how much foreigners contribute to the economy.
The league tables have been compiled by the Left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research on behalf of Dispatches, to be shown on Channel 4 tonight. The figures come from the census and the quarterly Labour Force Survey.
Somalians rely heavily on benefits, according to the statistics - 80 per cent live in social housing and 39 per cent claim income support.
Nearly half of newly-arrived Turks - 49 per cent - rely on social housing, 52 per cent do not work and 21 per cent claim income support. However, 35 per cent are self-employed.
Other nationalities rely on sickness benefit – 10 per cent of those newly arrived from Pakistan claim it, along with nine per cent from Cyprus, and eight per cent from Kenya, Ireland and Jamaica.
Poles work longer hours for less pay and are paid less sickness benefit than almost any other group.
Nigerians are among the best educated, most likely to be working in the public sector and least likely to claim sickness benefit.
British-born workers score below average in most of the tables – they claim more sickness benefit and council housing and work shorter hours.
The authors said: "There are some immigrant communities who rank consistently lower on most indicators.
"In some cases, these communities are predominantly made up of people who are here for non-economic reasons - for example, to join family members, or to seek asylum."
There were fears that the documentary would play into the hands of far-Right wing groups such as the BNP.
Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee, said yesterday: "I would be very concerned at any programme which might turn immigrant groups against each other.
"Putting different ethnic groups into league tables is not the best way of securing an integrated society."
Channel 4 said yesterday: "We think it is important that information such as this is placed in the public domain so that hard data rather than intuition and assumption can inform the current debate."
[Poles work longer hours for less pay and are paid less sickness benefit than almost any other group. ]
Ahaaa! That’s my relatives, hardworking and honest. Interesting article.
WHAT A SHOCK!!!!!!!! How about in the USA???
I didn’t think the benefit of immigration was just to add sheer numbers, I thought it was to add workers. Doesn’t seem to be working out for the UK.
susie
Somalis are always the worst ones. In Norway, 90% were unemployed and claimed benefits. The ones who could work, wouldnt because they were so uneducated that all they could do was wash and they refused to do it. They have a serious problem with entitlements and what they feel they deserve.
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