{"id":75875,"date":"2025-05-31T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75875"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:52:48","slug":"foreigners-claim-1bn-a-month-in-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/foreigners-claim-1bn-a-month-in-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreigners claim \u00a31bn a month in benefits"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1FNYCg.img?w=534&amp;h=336&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Job centre\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Benefits claims by households with at least one foreign national have doubled to nearly \u00a31 billion a month in the past three years, government figures show.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/foreigners-claim-1bn-a-month-in-benefits\/ar-AA1FNP5J?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=cc4267f254fc451ebc17d1ec6298831b&amp;ei=12\">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>Benefits claims by households with at least one foreign national have doubled to nearly \u00a31 billion a month in the past three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"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\/75875","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=75875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75876,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75875\/revisions\/75876"}],"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=75875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}