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Giving people seeking asylum the right to work is worth £300 million a year to the Treasury.
So today we're asking: Jeremy Hunt, do you want this cheque?
#LiftTheBan #AutumnStatement
So today we're asking: Jeremy Hunt, do you want this cheque?
#LiftTheBan #AutumnStatement
Here's how we reached the figure of £300 million. 🧮
It's based on national insurance and income tax contributions if half of the 69,593 working-age people waiting more than six months for a decision on their asylum claim found work.
It's based on national insurance and income tax contributions if half of the 69,593 working-age people waiting more than six months for a decision on their asylum claim found work.
Once able to support themselves, people would no longer need asylum support payments from the government.
So we added that saving onto the final amount as well. The grand total was £308,472,107.
So we added that saving onto the final amount as well. The grand total was £308,472,107.
The news cycle over the last week has felt overwhelming for those working in the asylum, migration, homelessness and anti-poverty sectors, starting with the reappointment of a Home Secretary whose dream it is to send refugees to Rwanda. /1
1) Govt illegally detaining people seeking asylum. 2) Scabies and diphtheria outbreak at an asylum centre. 3) Growing backlog of people seeking asylum waiting for their claims to be processed. /2
4) Eye-watering costs of keeping people seeking asylum in limbo. Money that could be spent more effectively and reduced if people seeking asylum were more easily allowed to work #LiftTheBan 5) The demonising of people who have been trafficked to the UK. /3
🧵👏: On day 1 Report Stage of the #NationalityandBordersBill yesterday, the House of Lords voted with compassion & defeated the Government in order to:
1⃣ Allow British nationality rights for descendants of Chagos Islanders denied #citizenship due to historic injustice (237:154)
1⃣ Allow British nationality rights for descendants of Chagos Islanders denied #citizenship due to historic injustice (237:154)
2⃣Omit #Clause9 which would have given the Home Secretary sweeping powers to deprive people of British citizenship without giving them notice (209:173)
3⃣Ensure Part 2 of the Bill does not authorise policies & decisions that fail to comply with the #RefugeeConvention (218:140)
In @UKHouseofLords, Peers now voting on whether to remove the powers on depriving people of their British Citizenship #NationalityAndBordersBill
@UKHouseofLords result imminent...
Was honestly infuriating to work on this review of the costs the Home Office creates for itself and other government departments by making so many wrong initial decisions on asylum applications, and taking such a long time to do so (1/) 🧵
Of the 14,600 initial asylum applications the Home Office rejects each year, 11,500 lodge appeals and around 3,700 of those appeals are successful. So mistakes have been made in the initial process.
Now if I made 3,700 mistakes each year, I’d be fired but... (2/)
Now if I made 3,700 mistakes each year, I’d be fired but... (2/)
So 🎯Key Point A : those mistakes cost £££.
Direct costs to Home Office admin of ~£4m a year
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Many times to that to HM Courts and Tribunals Service
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Legal aid (though this is complex and v limited) (3/)
Direct costs to Home Office admin of ~£4m a year
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Many times to that to HM Courts and Tribunals Service
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Legal aid (though this is complex and v limited) (3/)
Now is the time to point out that when asylum seekers are given the right to work it must be under equal conditions as other workers
❗️Minimum wage
❗️Sick pay & paid leave
‼️ NO penalty on those who are not able to find suitable/not mentally prepared to take on work #LiftTheBan
❗️Minimum wage
❗️Sick pay & paid leave
‼️ NO penalty on those who are not able to find suitable/not mentally prepared to take on work #LiftTheBan
While the campaign to #LiftTheBan is good and important and will give back agency, independence and self-esteem to many asylum seekers, we must remember that asylum seekers (especially women with kids, etc) are often unable to work - traumatised, etc. & that's legitimate too.
Really, giving asylum seekers the right to work should go hand in hand with giving asylum seekers back full access to welfare support or, at the very least, raising the pitifully low levels of asylum support for all.
Oh & ending NRPF while we're at it.
Oh & ending NRPF while we're at it.
Giving people seeking asylum the right to work is common sense. The new #LiftTheBan coalition report shows how clear the evidence is. We’d challenge anyone to read this thread summarising the report and disagree. 1/13
refugee-action.org.uk/common-sense/
refugee-action.org.uk/common-sense/
The case for lifting the ban has always been strong, but our new findings make it undeniable. Giving people seeking the right to work now would benefit the treasury to the tune of £97.8 million per year. More than double our 2018 estimate. 2/13 
Banned from working means banned from contributing to the UK even in crises like the coronavirus. Our report shows that 45% of the people seeking asylum we surveyed would qualify as critical workers during the pandemic. 3/13
Herman Roos describes the supply chain of products sold by farmers affecting all workers jobs, researchers, etc and how tobacco and alcohol bans promote rise of drug cartels #LIFTTHEBANSA #SaveOurJobs
@LIFTTHEBAN_SA @afriforum
@GroundUp_News
@LIFTTHEBAN_SA @afriforum
@GroundUp_News
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Video to the following email addresses at The Presidency
Video to the following email addresses at The Presidency
Yesterday, Mayor Lightfoot let landlords and banks take an unenforceable "Solidarity Pledge" while renters live in fear. We did a little research. Come meet the team of banks and landlords Lightfoot trusts with your housing (and the donations they made to ensure this outcome) 1/9
The only Alderman Lightfoot could find to stand with her is Harry Osterman, the Real Estate and Housing Chair. He's bought and paid for, so he let the banks and landlords write their own pledge, instead of standing up for working people and legislating.
One of Lightfoot's pledge takers, The Chicagoland Apartment Association, is evicting dozens and paying off politicians.
UN special rapporteur Philip Alston giving press conference now after his time investigating #poverty in the UK: on benefits there is 'a sense that we should make the system as unwelcoming as possible'.
.@Alston_UNSR on impact of Brexit on UK #poverty, says 'those on the lower income levels are really going to suffer' - calls for much more attention to be paid to this.
.@Alston_UNSR on the risks of paying #universalcredit to only one partner in a household: 'the impact on many women is extremely problematic: it puts them at risk of domestic violence'
People seeking asylum in the UK are banned from working. This thread explains why we should #LiftTheBan and give them the right to work. 1/12
Firstly, they desperately want to work - to provide for their families and contribute to the country that’s sheltering them as they wait for the outcome of their claim. 2/12
Instead, they’re forced into needless poverty – struggling to live off £5.39 a day. More than half turn to food banks. 3/12
