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The Equality and Human Rights Commission has urged the Labour Government to ease rules preventing migrants from accessing benefits. According to GB News, the regulator has slapped ministers with its lowest ranking for failing United Nations recommendations.
Watchdog Slams Government Action
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has handed the Government an “inconsistent action” rating. Regulators point to rules preventing many migrants from accessing social security support.
Critics argue that failing to revise these policies leaves vulnerable people at risk. The watchdog insists that alignment with United Nations guidelines is necessary.
The Public Funds Controversy
The core of the dispute centers on the “no recourse to public funds” restrictions. These regulations bar numerous non-British nationals from claiming standard welfare or housing assistance.
- EHRC gives the Government its lowest ranking for failing UN recommendations
- Watchdog targets rules restricting social security access for migrants
- Calls made to revise “no recourse to public funds” policies
- Concerns raised over poverty risks among asylum seekers
Official Responses and Demands
Campaigners and watchdog officials maintain that current restrictions create severe hardship. Ministers face growing pressure from international bodies to alter course.
Instead of revising rules which do not allow many migrants to access social security when they may need it, the Government has failed to act.
— Equality and Human Rights Commission, GB News
The debate over migrant welfare access continues to divide opinion across Westminster. Public reaction to the watchdog’s demands remains sharply polarized.
The Government faces mounting scrutiny over its welfare framework and international compliance standards.
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If these mugrants can pay smugglers they do not need any help from the UK. Sod all recomendations from outside bodies as not legal and they should keep out of UK affairs.
Couldn’t agree more ..we just keep giving and giving but not to our own folk that are also in poverty .
They get free everything prioritise is with Dr’s, dentist & hospital treatment … not counting the bloody Aid that we give too ..
It all needs to stop . We government our own country!’
ECHR AND THE UN GO DO ONE THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT VULNERABLE IT IS THE INDIGENOUS BRITISH PUBLIC THAT ARE THE VULNERABLE ONE’S ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND SOME MEN AKA LOOK AT THE NEWS ATTEMPTED BEHEADING IN NORTHERN IRELAND A GUY WALKING HIS DOG THE GUY WITH SEVERE INJURIES THAT KILLED HIM AND WHAT DID THE POLICE DO THEY SIDED WITH THE CULPRIT AND THINK ABOUT THIS THE IMMIGRANTS COMING IN BY BOATS GIVE THOUSANDS OF POUNDS TO THE PEOPLE SMUGGLERS TO ENTER THE UK BY THE CHANNEL THATS HARDLY DESTITUTION IS IT PLUS THEY HAVE TRAVELLED THROUGH MULTIPLE SAFE COUNTRIES WHY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY WILL HAVE AN EASY LIFE BECAUSE THE IMMIGRANTS DO GET BENEFITS SO GO AWAY UN AND ECHR *UCK YOUR RULES AND REGULATIONS!!!