British taxpayers are footing the bill for record numbers of unemployed immigrants, reportedly costing the government up to £8.5 billion a year.
The number of foreigners who are currently unemployed or “economically inactive” in the UK has reached a record high of 1.689 million, according to an analysis of government figures by the Immigration Centre. The think tank noted that the current figure is the highest in UK history, beating the previous previous record of 1.628 million in 2012.
Researchers at the Migration Management Centre have estimated that supporting unemployed migrants could cost taxpayers as much as £8.5 million a year – but this does not include the costs to the country of asylum seekers and international students, and the total financial cost of mass immigration policies is probably much higher.
talk Daily MailRobert Bates, Research Director, Immigration Management Center; said“For all its talk about a fiscal 'black hole', the Labour government seems to be missing the obvious: mass immigration is causing economic chaos.”
“There is no justification for continuing to issue so many long-term visas when we need to bail out over a million migrants already in the UK who are not working. This is the very definition of a Ponzi scheme and unless we change course immediately the problem will only get worse.”
“Older people could be in for a deadly winter as Chancellor Keir Starmer scraps the lifeline winter fuel benefit while doing nothing to crack down on unemployed migrants.”
Nigel Farage, Leader of the Reform Party of Great Britain Added“The economic argument for mass immigration is over.”
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Meanwhile, the Home Office, the UK government's immigration department, has been accused of repeatedly overspending on asylum seekers.
The Home Office's budget for spending on asylum, border and visa administration over the past three years was initially estimated at £320 million, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
However, in reality the Home Office spent £7.9 billion during the period, meaning the Home Office underestimated its budget by £7.6 billion.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the underestimation continued this year and accused the Home Office of presenting a “knowingly inadequate” budget for 2024.
The think tank acknowledged costs had risen as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants crossed the English Channel from France to claim asylum in the UK, but the IFS said the crisis had been ongoing for several years and therefore any associated increases in costs “should have been entirely foreseeable”.
IFS Research Economist Max Werner said BBC: “If there is a one-off unexpected spike in costs or demand, it is entirely understandable that more money will be spent than budgeted. But when that happens year after year, something is wrong with the budgeting process.”
A Home Office spokesman said: “Our policy has been to make it clear that the majority of the costs of the asylum system are covered by the supplementary budget. As part of our ongoing spending review, we will now seek to include these costs in the main budget.”
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