Failed asylum seeker families to be paid £40,000 to leave Britain

The Standard ^ | 3/5/2026 | Rachael Burford

[MinorityRepublican]

Families of failed asylum seekers will be paid up to £40,000 to leave Britain under a new Government pilot scheme.

Migrants who cooperate with the system and leave the UK within seven days will receive payments of up to £10,000 per person, capped at four per family, as part of the Home Office plan.

Some 150 families living in taxpayer-funded hotels were sent messages on Thursday informing them that they can take part in the trial.

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said: “This is an insult to the British taxpayer… Offering £40,000 to failed asylum seekers to leave the country will only reward and incentivise illegal immigration.”

But hitting back at suggestions the plan will attract more migrants to the UK, a Home Office spokesperson said: “This is not a pull factor.

“Illegal migrants pay smugglers tens of thousands of pounds to get to Britain.

“If those families offered the time-limited payment refuse, we will forcibly remove them.”

Home Office minister Alex Norris also defended the scheme and said it could save the British taxpayer £20million in hotel costs.

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[BobL]

“But hitting back at suggestions the plan will attract more migrants to the UK, a Home Office spokesperson said: “This is not a pull factor. Illegal migrants pay smugglers tens of thousands of pounds to get to Britain.”

Actually, NGOs pay it.

[Whatever Works]

Well, Britain paid the slave owners to emancipated their slaves in the day too. It is a British thing.

[rellic]

I wonder If they had considered tents where the illegals landed in the UK?
Porta-potties, cold water showers, and outdoor cooking.
Welcome to UK!

[Uncle Miltie]

And paddle your inner tube over for another go!

[Keyser Soze 84]

Hmmm.

Britain not too bright.

[Keyser Soze 84]

Hmmm.

Britain not too bright.

[alancarp]

...checking prices on flights to Britain...

[BFW]

Get 40K rinse and repeat........

[A strike]

Idiot Home Office minister Alex Norris said it could save the British taxpayer 20 million #s in hotel costs.

How About Not Putting Them Up In Hotels you moron ?

[yldstrk]

That’s what my friend who is a landlord does, pays people to leave her rental houses.

[Bullish]

Hey Brits, you know at some point the money runs out but your stupidity will last forever.

[FreedomPoster]

The Home Office is clearly high on drugs. That, or just outright lying to the world. Maybe both.

[alexander_busek]

Families of failed asylum seekers will be paid up to £40,000 to leave Britain under a new Government pilot scheme.

Call it what it is: Danegeld!

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,

For fear they should succumb and go astray;

So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,

You will find it better policy to say: –

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,

No matter how trifling the cost;

For the end of that game is oppression and shame,

And the nation that plays it is lost!"

Regards,