Benefits are being claimed by over one million foreign nationals, costing over £7.5 billion a year, according to an analysis of Government figures, prompting calls for an overhaul of eligibility rules. The Telegraph has more.
Households with at least one foreign national claimant received more than £7.5 billion in universal credit in 2023, figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show.
Foreign nationals become eligible for universal credit and other benefits on the same terms as British citizens once they are granted indefinite leave to remain and have settled or refugee status. After paying national insurance for 10 years, they are also entitled to the state pension.
The analysis by the Centre for Migration Control (CMC) suggests 40 nationalities – after getting indefinite leave to remain, settled status or refugee protection – are claiming benefits at a greater rate per head of population than British citizens. Three nationalities – Congolese, Iraqis and Afghans – are claiming benefits at four times the rate of British people.
The disclosure of the foreign welfare bill comes ahead of an expected announcement by Sir Keir Starmer unveiling up to £6 billion of benefit cuts. He has described the system as “unsustainable, indefensible and unfair” but is facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership over the planned reforms.
The cost of foreign benefit claims excludes a further £5.4 billion for accommodating and supporting a backlog of more than 100,000 asylum seekers. That cost rose five-fold in five years under the last Conservative government.
The bill is likely to increase as 800,000 foreign nationals are expected to receive indefinite leave to remain in the UK over the next decade following record levels of net migration of up to 906,000 a year, according to a separate analysis by the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
The Tories have proposed that jobless and low-paid migrants should be barred from remaining indefinitely in the UK. They have also argued that the length of time before anyone who has come to the UK can claim such leave to remain should be increased from five to 10 years.
Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, said the benefits bill for foreign nationals was “unacceptable” and “astonishing”. “It is immoral that British taxpayers are subsidising nationals of other countries on an industrial scale. No wonder our taxes are so high,” he said.
“Research shows low-wage migrants actually cost other taxpayers money. This is why the era of mass migration has to end. I have tabled amendments to the Borders Bill to create a legally binding annual cap on immigration numbers and an increase in the visa salary threshold to £38,000 across the board.”
The CMC analysis is based on DWP data from 2019, which shows that there were 990,000 foreigners – 610,000 non-EU nationals and 380,000 EU nationals – who were claiming working-age benefits, an increase of 9% on the year before. This compared with 6.1 million Britons, which had only increased by 4% since 2018.
Worth reading in full.
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Brilliant!
Seconded…..
This sort of demonic insanity is like a bottomless pit: individuals and societies that fall into it are in a permanent state of fall, never reaching the bottom.
To sustain the basic lie (i.e. that a man can change gender) further and further elaborate lies must be invented, propagated and enforced. At the end the whole thing will implode, inevitably, as ultimately there is order in the universe and that order ensures that reality always wins.
By the way, I don’t think Madame Macron looks like a man; no, she looks like a desperately sad woman who has had far too much plastic surgery.
But yeah, there is something weird about the relationship.
XY is not XX and testosterone is not estrogen or progesterone.
Along with the usual two overall options for bodily features, that’s all there is to it.
Am somehow reminded of the reputed excesses of the Weimar Republic this time last century.
Because she/he/it is a man ?
Or maybe she/he/it is a monkey ?
Difficult to tell.
FBI supposedly has the proof that Big Mike aka Michelle OClowna is a man.
Looking forward to Tronald and Kash releasing that info.
Because of Germany’s ludicrous self-identity gender laws ( which apply from the age of 14yrs old ), all the loopholes are opened and all the weirdos, predatory perverts and con artists are protected because they suddenly have ‘rights’ to behave this way. This case just demonstrates what is possible when you fixate and prioritise DEI above all else because those who run society are epic woketards;
”A trans-identified male in Dortmund, Germany, is facing scrutiny after winning over €250,000 over the course of 240 separate discrimination lawsuits. Many have accused the man, who has been unemployed for 12 years, of using Germany’s strict protections for those who self-identify as transgender to enrich himself.
Apart from three internships and one short-term job, the trans-identified man has been unemployed since 2012 and receives public welfare.
In a recent interview with Westphalen Blatt, Steffen claimed to have applied for over 1,577 jobs over the last eight years, but reported he has struggled to find a position. But critics have accused Steffen of running something akin to a racket, labelling him an “AGG-hopper.” The German slang term refers to individuals who do not apply for a job with the intention of actually taking it up, but rather to receive compensation for alleged violations of anti-discrimination laws.
Steffen has been known to apply for jobs he does not actually qualify for throughout the North Rhine-Westphalia region. For example, in one instance he applied for a job which was a one-hour drive from his home despite the fact he does not have a driver’s license and cannot drive.
But the moment Steffen receives a rejection from a job he applies for, he files a lawsuit citing a violation of the German Equal Treatment Act (AGG). Steffen has also filed lawsuits for jobs he never applied for, but found to be “discriminatory” in advance by focusing on minor errors in the job advertisements.
For example, in one case, an advertisement omitted to specify that people of “diverse” genders can apply, and only stated that “male and female” applicants were welcome. Steffen sued over this omission and won.”
https://reduxx.info/germany-trans-identified-male-on-welfare-sues-over-240-employers-for-discrimination-after-being-continuously-rejected-from-jobs-he-is-not-qualified-for/
A number of different adjectives may be appropriate for Candace Owens – I can understand why some of her positions might be found hard to take – but I can’t see how she could be described as “moronic” in the commonly used sense of the word.
Regarding Macron’s wife, I have no idea about her, but I am not sure how the author can determine that she’s a woman just because Mr Macron was interested in her. The fact that she is reported to have children seems more telling – probably quite hard to fake having children.
Whether or not it is hard depends who you are and/or who you know, I suppose…
Stranger things have happened.
Candace Owens has zero credibility as she’s a Jew-hating, vacuous talking head who defends known perverts and simps for sex-trafficking, rapist, misogynist, scam-artist pimps. Just another female traitor to her own sex, then. There’s a fair amount of them about;
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/1889146872432058748
I have no idea if it’s male or female. But it definitely is ugly.
Looks like my assessment of you the other day was spot on.
Missed it. I’m just gutted.
The fact you’ve repeatedly proven yourself to be the misogynists’ loyal little handmaiden? One of many who lurk on here? There you go, consider yourself up to speed.
I guess, forever being the anomaly around these parts, I’m never going to be a nasty little keyboard warrior, sat at home, calling an elderly woman “ugly”. But that’s just me. Never was much cop at being a ‘nodding dog’ in an echo chamber.
Top article. ‘First Ladyboy’–love it!
I recall Richard Dawkins’ idea of memes – a self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics). As an example the phrase “Play it again, Sam” is a well known and recognised phrase – even though the phrase was never spoken in the film ‘Casablanca’.
There were plenty of nay-sayers to the meme idea… but if memes attract approval they can spread without necessarily being true. Perhaps weird allegations spread as memes because they are too delicious not to pass on, whether they are true or not?
You could make an argument that many of the Social Justice ideas are just memes that play into the worldview of those that wish the memes were true.
What a crazy conspiracy theory that Brigitte is a man. No more likely than a worldwide pandemic caused by a lab leak to lock us all up and get us all jabbed.
Depressing to see the intolerant abuse terms of the mob in the DS – for the first time that I recall. If Candace Owens is a moron she is at least as articulate as Steven Tucker, and a good deal more successful in reaching an audience. I suspect his dislike of her may be more to do with her attitude to the activities of the Israeli state than the landscape of the Marcronic nether regions….
Dr Victor Acharian clearly doesn’t own a scalpel as the application of said article to the excess appendages would have gone some way to solve the problem. Oh I suppose he might have needed anaesthetic too.
Name calling and othering Candace Owens? shame on you. People should listen to the podcast and decide for themselves, it is a well researched entertaining piece.
This was hilarious