Country bankrupt - but overpaying Asylum Seekers

[VHG]

People who have lived here all their lives are having their houses repossessed due to the credit crunch.

But I see we can still give housing benefit to Asylum Seekers, and not only that but OVERPAY them as well.

No wonder people get so annoyed about the whole immigrant/asylum issue.

I have lived here all my live and NEVER claimed housing benefit, a (so called) aslyum seeker arrives and begins to dip their hand in the pot straight away.

This is such a pathetic country. No wonder we attract the poor of the world, we just give them our money, no questions asked.

http://www.telegraph....benefits-in-2009.html

[VHG]

And before anyone says "it is only 10 million". The problem is it is 10 million here, 10 million there, 10 million somewhere else, and it all adds up.

Our leaders seem intent in dragging us further and further down to a third world country.

[ORANGEANDPROUD]

The report says " The payouts were revealed in the Home Office's official accounts for 2008/9. They showed two-thirds of the total – nearly £7 million – was in cases where payments had been stopped but not within the required time limit" That means it was not the fault of the asylum seekers but the ones processing the benefit.

Also in the same year, Housing Benefit of £840 million pounds was overpaid to non-asylum seekers.

[ORANGEANDPROUD]

Apologies, the total overpaid was £840 million, only £830 million was paid to
non-asylum seekers.

[rov1200]

If you want to appear on the world stage as a compassionate person, one who knows all the answers to the world problems, one who backs his pledges then you need to turn to a statesman like Blair or even Brown. You can dish out these sums because they can be funded from the gullible British public who are known to be the most charitable people on Earth.
Maybe we need leaders who will put Britain first and rather than false platitudes behave as Sarkozy or Merkel treats its own citizens.

[Dodger666]

Nobody should receive benefits greater than the take home pay of someone on the minimum wage. If the Government think a family can exist on the minimum wage then so should those on benefit.

Read this and weep:-

http://www.newsofthew...news/article43731.ece

[smudge]

...and there are 'our' children who have worked so hard & who are struggling to pay mortgages, etc.

[TTG]

They have clever lawyers or people in their own country that can advise before coming to the UK.