{"id":77805,"date":"2025-07-24T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=77805"},"modified":"2025-07-24T06:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T06:29:03","slug":"asylum-seekers-using-50-a-week-taxpayer-handouts-to-fund-their-gambling-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/asylum-seekers-using-50-a-week-taxpayer-handouts-to-fund-their-gambling-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Asylum seekers using \u00a350 a week taxpayer handouts to fund their gambling habits"},"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\/AA1JaEIe.img?w=534&amp;h=457&amp;m=6\" alt=\"In the last year, up to 6,537 asylum seekers have used the government-issued cards at least once for gambling, in betting shops and even casinos\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asylum seekers are using taxpayer handouts to fund their gambling habits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/asylum-seekers-using-50-a-week-taxpayer-handouts-to-fund-their-gambling-habits\/ar-AA1JaLVi?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ab63d0e4c43343c79a2f6b0ef2fa387e&amp;ei=13\">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>Asylum seekers are using taxpayer handouts to fund their gambling habits. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/migrants-Dover.webp","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805","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=77805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77806,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805\/revisions\/77806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}