Asylum seeker payouts to be cut as officials admit they are 'too generous' 2,500 AWOL foreign pupils in one city Asylum seekers facing benefits cut The house of despair MIGRANTS GO MISSING IN STUDENT VISA SCAM Leading article: A depressingly predictable attack on asylum-seekers UK cuts cost, to outsource 100 jobs to IndiaA selection of recent media reports
Payouts to asylum seekers are to be slashed after immigration chiefs admitted they had been too generous. Under pressure to cut their budget in the face of recession, UK Border Agency chiefs admitted today that the payouts have been wrongly pegged to standard Income Support levels - which are not designed...
Daily Mail (30-Jul-2009)
THOUSANDS of foreign students granted visas to study at UK universities never turn up, figures have confirmed.
The Sun (30-Jul-2009)
Allowances for some asylum seekers are to be cut as part of a bid by the Government to slash costs in the face of the recession. Single people aged over 25 arriving in the UK to seek refuge will receive £35.
Channel 4 News (30-Jul-2009)
A filthy squat in Calais is home to 50 Eritreans who daily try to cross the Channel seeking asylum in Britain.
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (30-Jul-2009)
THOUSANDS of foreign students bound for British universities are unaccounted for after being given UK entry visas.
Daily Express (30-Jul-2009)
Rather than cutting benefits, ministers should let refugees...
The Independent (30-Jul-2009)
More than 100 jobs at the British Council in the UK are to be outsourced to India, as part of a massive cost-cutting drive to save taxpayers' money
Press Trust of India (29-Jul-2009)
Thursday, 30 July 2009
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