{"id":807614,"date":"2026-03-06T09:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:48:14","slug":"a-scheme-offering-the-families-of-failed-asylum-seekers-up-to-40000-to-leave-the-uk-will-not-be-a-pull-factor-the-home-office-has-insisted-home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-said-a-sm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807614\/","title":{"rendered":"A scheme offering the families of failed asylum seekers up to \u00a340,000 to leave the UK will not be a \u201cpull factor\u201d, the Home Office has insisted. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said a small number of failed asylum seekers will be offered an \u201cincreased incentive payment\u201d of \u00a310,000 per person and up to \u00a340,000 per family to leave Britain. The scheme is expected to target about 150 families living in taxpayer-funded accommodation. Those who refuse the offer will be forcibly removed, Ms Mahmood said. #manchestereveningnews #politics #uknews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scheme offering the families of failed asylum seekers up to \u00a340,000 to leave the UK will not be a \u201cpull factor\u201d, the Home Office has insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said a small number of failed asylum seekers will be offered an \u201cincreased incentive payment\u201d of \u00a310,000 per person and up to \u00a340,000 per family to leave Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is expected to target about 150 families living in taxpayer-funded accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>Those who refuse the offer will be forcibly removed, Ms Mahmood said.<\/p>\n<p>#manchestereveningnews #politics #uknews | Manchester Evening News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scheme offering the families of failed asylum seekers up to \u00a340,000 to leave the UK will not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-807614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}