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Migrants and Benefits

Paul_Treloar_CPAG
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Advice and Rights Team, Child Poverty Action Group

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Incredibly useful analysis of statistical reporting of migrant benefit claims from Commons Library, following some of the recent Migrant Watch/Daily Express headlines (aka utter spurious garbage).

Migrants and Benefits

In particular, at the conclusion, it’s noted that “However, these figures do reveal a quite different conclusion to that in the Migration Watch report: that, in February 2014, claimant rates were 7.4% for non-UK nationals and 12.7% UK nationals.” i.e. Migration Watch exaggerated things in their recent report shocker.