Asylum seekers are using taxpayer handouts to fund their gambling habits: More than 6,000 migrants used government-issued cards loaded with £50 a week at betting shops and casinos in past year

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14934731/Asylum-seekers-using-taxpayer-handouts-fund-gambling-habits.html

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30 comments

  1. It blows my mind that they wouldn’t put restrictions on those cards. The home office really are a law unto themselves.

  2. You’ve been able to restrict spending on cards for decades. I remember, 20 years ago, helping a financial controller set up an app to manage company credit cards, which allowed them to block certain categories of spending.

    Even now, my personal banking app lets me block my debit and credit cards from being used for gambling, cash withdrawals, and other specific types of transactions.

  3. Surprised the people smugglers are not advertising “free gambling” as part of their package deal to the UK

  4. They’re just trying to integrate. I mean… there’s nothing more British that blowing your Giro on the bookies as soon as you get it.

  5. Typical DM ragebait

    If someone has £50 a week to buy EVERYTHING they might need, how much are they spending on gambling?

    And oopsie, the little caveat that some are using it at cash machines at these venues. As I would have to, given there are no longer any other cash machines at my high street.

    Also, it seems to be 6000 transactions a year, not 6000 people, just that the DM wants to make you mad about the non-bilionaires being the bogey man

  6. This sounds like made up bullsh…. Oh yes it’s posted by the daily fail.

  7. And the billionairs are using your tax dollars on 500 million pound apartments in london and hiding the rest in their tax haven.

    Blaming the people who have nothing, for the crimes of those who have everything is an institution in Britain.

  9. Wait till you find out what those absurdly rich people are doing with your money in the casin lmao

  10. Can’t they just block the merchant group with the card provider ? I could do that a decade ago in a previous job.

  11. This system isn’t working. We have old people burning books because they can’t afford gas and so many homeless people yet people who land illegally get the benefits.

    Why is our government doing this?

    We need to pull out of ECHR and stop asylum claims for 5 years until this mess is taken care of else I anticipate social unrest and policing adds to our overhead of public spending

  12. The amount of asylum seekers news coming out these few weeks is crazy.

    I’m assuming none of these are new, perhaps even pre-date the current government?

  13. Convert old military bases. You come here illegally you stay in the base no money no entertainment just the basics you’ll just be served food have a bed and a shower block. You stat there until your case is heard or your deported. No going out and working uber eats on a friends ID. Actual jail sentences and or million pound fine for any companies or directors who’ve not got an adequate vetting process and employs them. That’d be cheaper than all these private buisnesses making fortunes from the tax payers. And if they can’t get more money here than they do at home then there’s no motivation for them to come accept in genuine cases that require protection

  15. Disposable income as they earn enough from food deliveries.

    /s

  16. Sounds like we should be cracking down on gambling houses, then!
    I know plenty of Brit’s who have gambling additions. Growing up plenty of my white school mates were victims of their parent’s gambling the family budget away, while being on doll money, or in incredibly low income households.
    One mate with a brilliant black eye begged me to split lunch money, with him one lunch. His dad had just lost it all gambling the night before, and released the pain from his looses by beating my mate, and his sister.

  17. If they can afford to prioritise spending money on gambling, they are being given too much money. They shouldn’t have any extra cash to even be roaming around into bookies and casinos whilst being vetted. The cards should be restricted.

  19. Every other story is an immigrant story. They really don’t want us talking about taxing the wealthy huh?

    I’m not denying the immigrant crisis. Just saying, there seems to be a lot more news stories about it when we start talking about wealth tax…

  21. So what? It’s their money. If gambling is so evil ban gambling shops

  22. The reality is it’s A LOT more than those numbers.

    These are just the figures where it’s shown cash withdrawn in a casino or high street slot machine place.

    Imagine the amounts withdrawn in normal ATMs that’s then spent in the bookies

    Can’t wait to read the luvvies defending this one. I need a laugh

  23. Oh, that’s an easy one to solve. Close the betting shops.

  24. Yeah, you’ve got to speculate to accumulate 🤷‍♂️

  25. Between this, and people on PIP using their money for cocaine and gambling – we really need a revival of the food stamp distribution system.

  27. I mean aren’t they working for deliveroo so the £50 from the state is just an extra right…

  28. Contrary to the “we need to fill labour shortages” message, this is the primary purpose they’re here: to consume products and services with the British public’s taxes.

  29. Nice to see that even the migrants can’t escape the poverty traps of betting shops and casinos.

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