Asylum: Finance
(asked on 7th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will establish an independent review of the effectiveness of benefits and allowances available to refugees and asylum seekers in advance of changes being made to those measures.
This question was answered on 15th July 2015
Asylum seekers who are destitute are provided with accommodation and a cash allowance to cover their essential living needs. The level of the allowance is kept under regular review. If they are recognised as refugees they are able to claim mainstream benefits in the normal way.
The Government currently has no plans to establish an independent review of these arrangements.