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Post by egg on Nov 27, 2024 14:36:55 GMT
British council tax payers are set to pay higher bills amid a thousands-strong surge in the number of homeless "asylum seekers" in the UK.
The number of homeless successful asylum applicants has risen sixfold to almost 20,000 in just four years - and councils are expected to foot the bill.
Once migrants leave Home Office-provided accommodation, local authorities bear the responsibility for providing financial support.
Despite making up fewer than half a per cent of the UK population, more than one in 20 former asylum seekers are receiving statutory homelessness support from councils, The Telegraph has revealed.
That figure has soared from 2,640 in 2020-2021 to 18,140 in 2023-2024.
Asylum seekers to Britain are initially housed by the Home Office while they wait for a decision on their application.
Successful applicants are then handed a 28-day "move-on period" to find their own accommodation, after which their Home Office support is withdrawn.
The Local Government Association has laid into the Home Office as a result, saying the "approach of withdrawing support so abruptly" has only ratcheted up pressure on already "stretched" council budgets.
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Post by nob on Nov 28, 2024 9:35:13 GMT
I see 400 illegals have been granted asylum that were living in the Bibby-Stockholm, they are going to dismantle it now. Rupert Lowe asked for a breakdown of illegals getting benefits at PMQs yesterday, Starmer said he would release the figures. There's not going to be much left after fuel and council tax.
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