Labour's 'absurd' plan handing failed asylum seeker families up to £40,000 to leave Britain branded an 'insult' to taxpayers
Shabana Mahmood has been accused of 'insulting the British taxpayer' after launching a scheme which will hand failed asylum seeker families up to £40,000 to leave Britain.
The
Home Office today informed 150 families they are eligible for lump sums of £10,000 a head for up to four people if they agree to go voluntarily.
The Home Secretary's programme could be expanded to thousands more families with no right to be in this country if it proves successful.
The 'eye-watering' pay-outs were immediately branded 'absurd' by critics.
Some suggested the principle of offering five-figure sums to failed asylum seekers could actually encourage more illegal migrants to come to Britain, enticed by the prospect of free money.
Labour's new scheme is significantly more generous than existing cash incentives offered to migrants to leave voluntarily, currently capped at £3,000 a head.
Ms Mahmood has sanctioned the huge pay-outs in a bid to save even larger sums currently being spent on keeping the families in migrant hotels and other types of accommodation at the taxpayers' expense.
Labour scrapped the previous government's
Rwanda scheme, which would have seen adult asylum seekers compulsorily sent to east Africa to lodge claims there rather than here.
The Home Office today informed 150 failed asylum seeker families they are eligible for lump sums of £10,000 a head for up to four people if they agree to leave Britain voluntarily.
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