Posted on 05/31/2025 11:11:26 AM PDT by RandFan
Benefits claims by households with at least one foreign national have doubled to nearly £1 billion a month in the past three years, government figures show.
Households with at least one claimant who is a foreign national received £941 million in March this year, up from £461 million in March 2022, representing nearly a sixth of the month’s Universal Credit payments.
The figures are likely to reinforce calls for restrictions on benefits for migrants, which Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, urged Rachel Reeves to consider in a leaked memo seen by The Telegraph.
Ms Reeves, the Chancellor, is already facing a growing backbench rebellion over her plans to cut welfare spending. Funding two months of benefits for households with foreign nationals cancels out the £1.4 billion the Government saved by axing winter fuel payments.
Experts suggested the increase reflected a surge in the number of asylum seekers being granted refugee status and in net migration.
Foreign nationals become eligible for Universal Credit and other benefits on the same terms as British citizens once they are granted either indefinite leave to remain or refugee status.
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And the Limeys are stupid enough to let 'em have it instead of mounting their Aristocracy and Government on stakes.
We are no "smarter". The US spends about $5.5B/month on illegals. That doesn't include refugees and immigrants granted legal status, nor some state and local funds not tied to federal $. And we keep giving them more and more.
No sympathy here.
Go to You Tube. There’s dozens of videos from Brits showing what a nightmare the place has become.
It’s shocking. Great Britain. It’s done. And they’re BEGGING us to come and save them- again.
They want Trump to save them. They want to be the 51st. state.
It’s bizarre.
WEF’s wealth redistribution plan has been wildly successful. They never really made it clear that the redistribution would come from the middle class and not the wealthy.
I cannot disagree with you, I can only estimate that the US is not as far advanced in it’s degeneration.
Yes, ... it is also the real world.
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