Nearly 500 migrants a day signing up for benefits
Claims by foreign nationals hit a record high, as the number receiving Universal Credit climbs to 1.3 million
Nearly 500 migrants a day are signing up for benefits as claims by foreign nationals hit a record high, official figures show.
Last month, some 472 migrants a day began claiming Universal Credit, while the overall number of foreign nationals receiving it rose to nearly 1.3 million, an increase of 6.7 per cent in a year.
The disclosure comes as Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, will on Thursday announce new laws making migrants’ right to settle in the UK dependent on not claiming benefits.
Under the new system of “earned” settlement, their rights to indefinite leave to remain (ILR) will depend on their ability to support themselves without claiming benefits, paying National Insurance, having a clean criminal record, speaking English to a high standard and volunteering in the community.
Migrants will have to wait 10 years rather than the current five before being able to claim ILR, unless they are making a particularly significant contribution to society, whether financially or through voluntary and charitable work.
Those who are reliant on benefits, break the law or fail to make any contribution will face a longer wait for ILR and could face removal from the UK when their existing visas come up for renewal.
A source told The Telegraph: “The baseline becomes 10 years. Lots of contribution, and you may be able to earn ILR earlier. Failure to contribute in certain ways and it will be later. Failure to contribute in other ways will be entirely disqualifying.”
The 1.6 million migrants who have come to Britain since 2020 as part of the “Boriswave” influx – and who become eligible to seek ILR from January – will also now face a 10-year wait on claiming benefits under rules that will be applied to them retrospectively.
The Government fears that without taking action, these migrants could add hundreds of millions of pounds to the benefits bill because more than 800,000 are in low-paid work, meaning they and their families could be eligible for Universal Credit.
Ms Mahmood’s crackdown on legal migration on Thursday follows her announcement of major asylum reforms on Monday, which ended refugees’ automatic right to stay in the UK and forced those who remain to wait for 20 years for permanent settlement.
The moves come as Labour is seeking to claw back Reform UK’s lead in the polls…
Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, said: “I believe that foreign citizens should not be given any benefits at all, unless we are obliged by international treaty. That will end this huge con where British taxpayers are being made to subsidise immigrants.”
The official data show that 1.27 million migrants were claiming Universal Credit last month, the highest number on record and up from 883,000 in spring 2022. That represents a rise of 44 per cent in less than four years.
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