Monthly benefits to households with foreign nationals have surged to nearly £1 billion. The Telegraphhas the details.
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.
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. …
The data, obtained for the first time under freedom of information laws from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), shows that the amount of Universal Credit being claimed by foreign nationals has risen by nearly 30% in a year, from £726 million to £941 million in March.
This accounted for 15.5% of the total £6.05 billion payments of Universal Credit that month, up from 14.1% in March 2022 but down slightly since when Labour won the General Election in July last year.
The rising costs follow soaring net migration, which after Brexit reached a record high of more than 900,000 in 2023.
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Heretic
10 months ago
Thanks to KOMMUNIST KIER, who took the government to court and won welfare benefits for immigrants who have never paid a penny into the system. Even state pensions. Every possible type of welfare benefit, and Communist civil servants are eager to help non-citizens claim them all.
NO OTHER COUNTRY DOES THIS, except some Communist-controlled nations of the West. It is part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy to overwhelm the West with Stampede Immigration to DESTROY ALL INFRASTRUCTURE and bring about COLLAPSE, so the Communist Filth can rebuild the West into their own image. Just like the Fabian Society logo, of Fabian Traitors breaking the world with SLEDGEHAMMERS.
NO ONE EXCEPT BRITISH CITIZENS should have any right to British welfare benefits.
And Frances Fox-Piven, still gloating in the USA about the success of her plan in her old age, should be ARRESTED FOR TREASON.
In Margaret Thatcher’s time, foreigners had to work in the same full-time job, paying full taxes and claiming no welfare benefits, for a minimum of 7 years before they could apply for UK citizenship.
On top of Universal Credit Payments there are also the following freebies:
Free NHS
Free Dental
Free Prescriptions
Free eye-tests and glasses
Free school meals and uniforms
No rent or Council Tax to pay.
On top of UC (Universal Credit) there are Personal Independence Payments (PIP) which replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which helps offset PTSD – dinghy trips – and anxiety and such like. Or to cover the additional costs of children born spastic as a result of incestuous marriages.
Of course or else how would immigrants be able to afford to go on holiday back to the hole they came from where they claim they will be tortured and killed?
Claphamanian
10 months ago
Labour did promise in their general election manifesto to implement the socio-economic implications of the Equality Act 2010, allowing everyone living in the UK to thrive.
Pete Sutton
10 months ago
Back in the 1970s, when I was 20-something, generally if you didn’t work you starved. That was my experience as a would-be idler. Now it seems you can go straight from school to dole – provided you’re born into the entlled class. How and when did this happen?
Politicians, once on the left, but now most flavours, realised people dependent on benefits, vote for the parties that are softest on benefits… and here we are
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago
Yes baby not only do you suffer low wages because of excess labour but you pay for the overflow out of your taxes as well. Every analyst agrees that job opportunities worldwide are going to decrease rapidly in the next few years for obvious reasons. And then you get your UBI. Just make sure that you’re up to date on your stabbinations otherwise your currency be switched off and yo gonna die.
Pete Sutton
10 months ago
1,000 Channel Cuckoos arrived today – by late afternoon. I suppose that will cost us a few quid more!
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago
Lets face it they are worth every bloody penny for the joy they bring, It is worth noting though that if you visit a relative in a care home you will might find that there is not one native Englsh speaker there. Heaven knows what that does to a person who already feels lost, but it is thus. Everything gets monetised so how can you tempt workers into such a shoddy care industry. You cheapen yourself and then you complain about the consequences.
Jabby Mcstiff
10 months ago
Why do you persecute your own working class and disabled people and then put immigrants above them it is ghastly how you treat your own people. I would never treat anyone like that.
The UK needs to be setting PBs for deportation, not importation. What a malicious joke, the Uniparty is;
”BREAKING – French and UK border patrols overwhelmed as more than 1,000 Channel migrants arrive in UK waters on Saturday. It smashes the previous daily total for the year when 825 migrants made the illegal crossing earlier this month. More than 14,600 have crossed so far this year.”
Top comment;
”The government wants this to continue.
It wants us to pay for the hotel rooms, food, and healthcare of foreign criminals until the heat-death of the universe.
It wants the streets of every beautiful town in Britain swarmed with gormless Deliveroo drivers, contributing to the GDP by their very existence in the country while draining us of everything that makes life bearable and pleasant.
It wants this, because it does absolutely nothing to stop it, and squanders millions in our taxes on turning the RNLI into a taxi service rather than spending anything on a deterrent.
They really, really hate us, and they aren’t hiding it.” Connor Tomlinson
Reading this story from abroad, one foreigner said on Breitbart,
“How INCREDIBLY stupid are the Brits to throw away that much money so they can be afraid of walking their streets, being raped, murdered, etc…..just sayin!!”
Matt Dalby
10 months ago
Given that people of non white heritage, especially Muslims, have larger families than people of white heritage it seems strange that Farage has said he’d remove the 2 child cap on family benefits. Doing so would just give more money to foreigners.
Perhaps he’s looking to encourage all people to have more children? Like all nations in the west, and elsewhere, we have overall population decline due to low birth rates
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Thanks to KOMMUNIST KIER, who took the government to court and won welfare benefits for immigrants who have never paid a penny into the system. Even state pensions. Every possible type of welfare benefit, and Communist civil servants are eager to help non-citizens claim them all.
NO OTHER COUNTRY DOES THIS, except some Communist-controlled nations of the West. It is part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy to overwhelm the West with Stampede Immigration to DESTROY ALL INFRASTRUCTURE and bring about COLLAPSE, so the Communist Filth can rebuild the West into their own image. Just like the Fabian Society logo, of Fabian Traitors breaking the world with SLEDGEHAMMERS.
NO ONE EXCEPT BRITISH CITIZENS should have any right to British welfare benefits.
And Frances Fox-Piven, still gloating in the USA about the success of her plan in her old age, should be ARRESTED FOR TREASON.
What about all immigrants going back to immediate post war, almost all of whom are now UK citizens. What’s the net account for all of them?
In Margaret Thatcher’s time, foreigners had to work in the same full-time job, paying full taxes and claiming no welfare benefits, for a minimum of 7 years before they could apply for UK citizenship.
On top of Universal Credit Payments there are also the following freebies:
Free NHS
Free Dental
Free Prescriptions
Free eye-tests and glasses
Free school meals and uniforms
No rent or Council Tax to pay.
On top of UC (Universal Credit) there are Personal Independence Payments (PIP) which replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) which helps offset PTSD – dinghy trips – and anxiety and such like. Or to cover the additional costs of children born spastic as a result of incestuous marriages.
Of course or else how would immigrants be able to afford to go on holiday back to the hole they came from where they claim they will be tortured and killed?
Labour did promise in their general election manifesto to implement the socio-economic implications of the Equality Act 2010, allowing everyone living in the UK to thrive.
Back in the 1970s, when I was 20-something, generally if you didn’t work you starved. That was my experience as a would-be idler. Now it seems you can go straight from school to dole – provided you’re born into the entlled class. How and when did this happen?
Politicians, once on the left, but now most flavours, realised people dependent on benefits, vote for the parties that are softest on benefits… and here we are
Yes baby not only do you suffer low wages because of excess labour but you pay for the overflow out of your taxes as well. Every analyst agrees that job opportunities worldwide are going to decrease rapidly in the next few years for obvious reasons. And then you get your UBI. Just make sure that you’re up to date on your stabbinations otherwise your currency be switched off and yo gonna die.
1,000 Channel Cuckoos arrived today – by late afternoon. I suppose that will cost us a few quid more!
Lets face it they are worth every bloody penny for the joy they bring, It is worth noting though that if you visit a relative in a care home you will might find that there is not one native Englsh speaker there. Heaven knows what that does to a person who already feels lost, but it is thus. Everything gets monetised so how can you tempt workers into such a shoddy care industry. You cheapen yourself and then you complain about the consequences.
Why do you persecute your own working class and disabled people and then put immigrants above them it is ghastly how you treat your own people. I would never treat anyone like that.
The UK needs to be setting PBs for deportation, not importation. What a malicious joke, the Uniparty is;
”BREAKING – French and UK border patrols overwhelmed as more than 1,000 Channel migrants arrive in UK waters on Saturday. It smashes the previous daily total for the year when 825 migrants made the illegal crossing earlier this month. More than 14,600 have crossed so far this year.”
Top comment;
”The government wants this to continue.
It wants us to pay for the hotel rooms, food, and healthcare of foreign criminals until the heat-death of the universe.
It wants the streets of every beautiful town in Britain swarmed with gormless Deliveroo drivers, contributing to the GDP by their very existence in the country while draining us of everything that makes life bearable and pleasant.
It wants this, because it does absolutely nothing to stop it, and squanders millions in our taxes on turning the RNLI into a taxi service rather than spending anything on a deterrent.
They really, really hate us, and they aren’t hiding it.” Connor Tomlinson
https://x.com/Con_Tomlinson/status/1928852629742039104
Reading this story from abroad, one foreigner said on Breitbart,
“How INCREDIBLY stupid are the Brits to throw away that much money so they can be afraid of walking their streets, being raped, murdered, etc…..just sayin!!”
Given that people of non white heritage, especially Muslims, have larger families than people of white heritage it seems strange that Farage has said he’d remove the 2 child cap on family benefits. Doing so would just give more money to foreigners.
Perhaps he’s looking to encourage all people to have more children? Like all nations in the west, and elsewhere, we have overall population decline due to low birth rates