Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
Migrant households are siphoning almost £1 billion in welfare benefits every month in Britain, a report has claimed.
The Telegraph highlights government figures from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) which reveal that registered households with at least one foreign national in March received £941 million in universal credit.
The welfare scheme allows low-income or unemployed people in Britain to claim government subsidies.
The figure just three years ago was £461 million, meaning it’s on course to double in just half a decade.
It’s hardly surprising given the massive increase in mass migration to the country under the so called Conservative government.
2023 saw migration climb to a record of 906,000. The latest data shows that 948,000 people came to Britain in 2024.
Migrants are eligible to apply for universal credit as soon as they acquire residential or refugee status in the Britain.
The report notes, however, that the total cost to the taxpayer of foreigners is way higher, when healthcare, education, and housing are factored in.
A recent study conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) discovered that housing asylum seekers, a great deal of whom are in the country illegally, has increased to approximately £4.7 billion a year.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage commented that leftist Prime Minister Kier “Starmer is choosing migrant benefits over winter fuel for pensioners.”
“On the day that we learn migrant benefits cost us £1bn a month, many hundreds are currently crossing the English Channel. Labour are ruining our country,” Farage urged.
The migrant problem in Britain has gotten so advanced that even Starmer himself has had to pivot, admitting this month that mass migration has failed and undermined social cohesion to such an extent that Britain risks becoming an “island of strangers”.
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