{"id":72427,"date":"2025-02-21T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T11:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=72427"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T11:04:58","slug":"taxpayers-spend-8m-a-year-on-interpreters-for-benefits-claimants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/21\/taxpayers-spend-8m-a-year-on-interpreters-for-benefits-claimants\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers spend \u00a38m-a-year on interpreters for benefits claimants"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/learnq.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-of-person-speaking-for-the-Learn-Q-Start-Your-Career-as-a-Well-Paid-UK-Interpreter-article.jpg\" alt=\"Start Your Career as a Well Paid UK Interpreter | Learn Q Blog\" width=\"507\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is spending \u00a38million a year on translators, paying out an average of \u00a3250 per call for non-English speaking benefits claimants.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/taxpayers-spend-8m-a-year-on-interpreters-for-benefits-claimants\/ar-AA1zv8A0?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=a879a9bf13e044bbba43b723ccbd2cf7&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is spending \u00a38million a year on translators, paying out an average of \u00a3250 per call&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-migration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Department-for-Work-and-Pensions.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72428,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72427\/revisions\/72428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}