More than one million foreigners claiming benefits

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/17/more-than-one-million-foreigners-claim-benefits/

Posted by tkyjonathan

27 comments

  1. If they’re citizens, they deserve benefits. They pay taxes, and have jumped through a million hurdles from the government to get indefinite leave to remain. They lived here for 5+ years paying taxes, paying NHS surcharge, and not receiving any benefits. 

    Absolute non-issue designed to stir up hate. Classic torygraph

  2. My ancestors built this society for me, not for foreign invaders. I will build nothing for the future, I will pay no tax or follow no laws until the democratic will of the people us respected and we get our country back.

  3. “Three nationalities – Congolese, Iraqis and Afghans – are claiming benefits at four times the rate of British people.”

    I wonder fucking why?

  4. Key paragraph:

    “Foreign nationals **become eligible** for universal credit and other benefits on the same terms as British citizens once they are granted [indefinite leave to remain](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/25/taken-for-suckers-time-scrap-indefinite-leave-to-remain/) and have settled or refugee status. After paying national insurance for 10 years, they are also entitled to the state pension.”

    They **are eligible**. They **have the right** to claim. The blame lies with the regulations or statutory instruments, not the individuals themselves.

  5. Once a person gets indefinite leave to remain – a process that takes 6-10 years depending on the process, during which time they contribute tax while earnings as well as just being a member of society, only then are people eligible for benefits.

    This is recycled nonsense designed to be ragebait and feed into racism, but lap it up sure.

  6. Yet the winter fuel allowance or the benefits to disabled people are the apparently the problem.

  7. oooh that’s a nice bit of scapegoating from the utter cunts at the Torygraph to kick off the week.

  8. The benefits are more than their wages in their home country

    SIMPLE

    And they send it back

    There are more Africans, Indians and people from ALL around the world than the UK can “Sponsor”

    If you giving £1 or $1 to every single person that needs it, yes great charity. BUT eventually you will be poor and then there will be more coming… then what?

  12. I hate this shit playing right into the hands of the worst kind of reform people. All we had to do was not this, the opposite of this, this is why a fucking nightmare party are climbing up the polls

  13. Over the last few decades the Home Office has basically been functioning like a giant people smuggling operation to get millions of low skilled non-EEA migrants into the UK where they can become welfare dependants and bring in further family members via family reunification. It is a monstrously incompetent operation.

    And until we introduce biometric ID cards this utter farce will continue. We just cannot modernise our public services and state without ID cards, all our public data sets are held in siloes and it is incredibly difficult to link them together, because there is no unifying ID number. There is a huge amount of fraud and error.

    And most crucially, without biometric ID cards our public services essentially are unable to verify who anybody actually is, hence the circus of trying to “prove” your identity with things like gas bills or GP letters.

  14. The problem is not the immigrants claiming benefits, it’s their right and they can only do that under certain circumstances , the problem is allowing too many people who end up claiming benefits. The country economy doesn’t support all these expenses and lack of productivity.

  16. If Reform are the only party seemingly willing to address this head on with HUGE changes (not token, small changes), then by the next GE they’ll have my vote and I reckon a lot of moderates too.

  17. What has happened to the Telegraph? Every day just 1000000000% dog whistling and naked racism.

  18. maybe the problem of needing peacekeepers and immigration problem can be solved with one action. 😀 😀 😀 😀

  19. We used to live in Australia, I was eligible to work there on a special skills visa. Paying 47% top tax rate, Medicare levy of 2% and no benefits would be awarded until 2 years after full citizenship.

    We must be out of our minds letting a million+ get full benefits.

  20. I am too busy working and paying taxes to be claiming

  21. I feel like…the Telegraph wants me to be upset about this?

  22. IMMIGRANTS ARE STEALING ALL THE MONEY! 

    Source – media funded by billionaires who hoard wealth and don’t pay taxes. 

    Solution – burn down a hotel and elect a frog man? 

  23. People need to eat and our country probably caused the war in their country or was involved like Syria for example

  24. Why do we offer benefits to immigrants with no minimum period of contribution to tax revenue?

    Obviously immigrants are going to flock here while we have policies that directly incentivise them to.

    I bet if recent immigrants couldn’t claim benefits then we’d see much lower immigration numbers which would help to reduce the impact it’s having on housing and public services.

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