One million immigrants claiming benefits

[AnxiousApocalypse]

Just been reading the comments sections of the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail articles about the one million foreigners claiming benefits in the UK. It feels like the final nail in the coffin and a lot of people will feel even more justified in expressing their anger and hate towards immigrants. What happens when Reform win the next general election and come into power? Will people be rounded up en masse and put in detention centres like the USA?

Nobody is gaslighting you. We’re just offended at your bigotry and inhumanity. Sorry if you don’t like the truth.

No, you are gaslighting others on this thread. Not me, I stopped listening to your kind a long time ago .

M777
UC covers, amongst other things, childcare costs. So again these headlines fail to point out that most of the [EU] claimants are working.

47.1% of people on Universal Credit in the "EU Settlement Scheme" immigration status were in employment in May 2025.

I promise it’s not nice there. I have seen patients at disgusting hotels in London. The food is slop. And tiny amounts. And the same food every day. Nobody could continue to eat that, however ‘grateful’ they should be.

I met a decent family from Iran. Professionals, persecuted. The wife wanted to cook but the £8/week is not enough to buy provisions. It is a shit life. Esp with kids. Heartbreaking. These people would rather be working in Iraq and be with their families. But they might die there so here they are. With children and suffering. but alive I guess.

Oh and ofc there are all sorts of asylum seekers there too. Aggressive ones. Drunk and drug issues. Mentally unwell ones. This poor family were terrified of some of the residents. Like in real life, asylum seekers are a heterogenous group of people. Please don’t stereotype. The decent asylum seekers hate the aggressive predatory types as much as you do.

It’s not fun. Your comments about deodorant are unpleasant and show no understanding of the reality for some people in this situation.

The numbers seem to indicate that there are c640k people who are not from the UK or EU who are claiming benefits excluding refugees.

It's not said if these folk work or not, but assume that it's a similar split working/not working as for people from EU i.e. 50/50, that's 320k people from outside UK or EU not working and claiming benefits.

The average UK benefit claim is £1k, so est. £320m a year.

Given that the black hole in the UKs finances was £22bn in 2024....where is it coming from?

Tax and VAT evasion cost something like £13bn a year. The hidden economy costs something like £2bn a year. Surely we need to prioritise tackling this given the sheer size. I'm not sure how though.

Where is your home town? Are the estates social housing?

You apparently do not know what gaslighting is. It's not saying things you disagree with FFS. It's a form of emotional abuse where the abuser tells you you're crazy or imagining things even though he/she knows for a fact those things happened, because in most cases, the gaslighter is responsible for them.
I wish this current trend of using gaslighting to mean disagreeing would fuck right off. Far too many people are doing it. It trivializes the experience of genuine gaslighting, which is awful.

Of course they are working people. There are no benefits for eu citizens who dont work. Maybe before but during and after brexit everyone has to work. Most claimants have children and claim childcare like I do, my child is british. I dont know of anyone who isnt working and claiming benefits from the eu unless they have a cheat code.

BumblingBanana
The average UK benefit claim is £1k

I think that must be per month?

There's a new estate currently under development in my area 100% without a doubt that this estate will be almost if not 100% inhabited my migrants as its just the way it is now around here. It's come to something when its an actual shock to see an English family being housed on our estate in England because it just no longer happens, even though many english families are trying and bidding on these properties. As soon as a house becomes vacant can guarantee the new tenants will be none British

It is amazing that so much social housing is suddenly being built in your and other poster's area. Great news after the inability of the Tories to do so.

Remember your other thread you started? Where you wanted to find out about Muslim women and why they didn’t swim in the sea. You claimed to love learning about other religions and cultures and loved learning about Islam. I didn’t comment on that but could see how disingenuous you were being. It’s all come out on this thread! True colours…

From here;

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/universal-credit-statistics-29-april-2013-to-12-june-2025/universal-credit-statistics-29-april-2013-to-12-june-2025

47.1% of people on Universal Credit in the "EU Settlement Scheme" immigration status were in employment in May 2025.

It shows 9.7% are claiming uc and fall under eu settlement scheme

This is not true

Finally, we agree on something!

9.7%

Haven’t we done enough of that already with immigration

I wasn’t alive and my ancestors were hard up as many people were. Kids down chimneys or in mines

Jerusalem - dark satanic mills says it all

EU settlement scheme has the largest proportion of people in work

I was wondering this too but couldn’t find the pp’s post. There’s lots of house building going on near me, thousands of houses on three estates. But the social housing element is tiny, affordable housing slightly more. Houses start at £380k.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/915732/immigrant-employment-rate-uk/
In the UK 19% of workforce is made out of immigrants. 76.4 of UK born citizens were in work compared with 84% EU born nationals i. 2025 first quarter. Lots of jobs are taken by immigrants, many low paid low skilled (if care can be considered low skill). Many take farming hard jobs that require 10-12 being on their feet carrying heavy stuff. I take this personally because I myself am an immigrant and since I came here 14 years ago, I never, and I mean never, stopped working. Many of my eastern european friends are the same like me. Not all, but majority. Many stayed in shit conditions cramped in small rooms and broke their backs picking strawberries all day on the frields. Do not complain, we know what to expect but please don't judge. The sacrifices that we made to succed here away from any support system is enormous!
Did not take a penny and contributed lots to the economy. Please have consideration, see the other part of the coin and don't paint us all with the same brush. Lots of love to everybody !

Would all the people posting actual facts here please stop? This thread is for people who want to complain about immigrants and how awful they are, the facts just get in the way.

Facts are boring, dontcha know?

What do you mean dont paint us all with the same brush? Do you believe we should feel guilty for having the eligibility to claim uc? We work and pay taxes, some of us claim, some us dont. Nevertheless we work. A poster said if we all went back home someone will fill these low skilled jobs, who are these people who will go and pick strawberries where are they. Are they waiting for us to leave? We do play a part in the economy and we shouldnt be made to feel guilty just because we are eligible for help from the gov. Anyone who isnt working should be ashamed whether they are british or european or etc

I meant to not think that majority of immigrants are coming here just to claim as is easier, is not and we are not. Of course you have right to claim, nobody said you don't. But if you want to spin a negative twist on a positive compasinoate post you can go ahead!

Haha - what?! Who is doing any of that?!