{"id":85279,"date":"2026-02-20T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85279"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:08:43","slug":"jobless-migrant-households-receive-more-than-10bn-in-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/20\/jobless-migrant-households-receive-more-than-10bn-in-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless-migrant households receive more than \u00a310bn 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\/AA1WGUAr.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=703&amp;y=141&amp;s=215&amp;d=215\" alt=\"Shabana Mahmood has proposed barring migrants from claiming benefits until they have British citizenship - Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jobless-migrant households have received more than \u00a310bn in\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">benefits<\/a> in just 18 months, official figures show.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/jobless-migrant-households-receive-more-than-10bn-in-benefits\/ar-AA1WH9dD?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=69982a7c844f4fbba7afaa593c4d29bb&amp;ei=69\"> 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>Jobless-migrant households have received more than \u00a310bn in\u00a0benefits in just 18 months, official figures show.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85279","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\/04\/small-boats.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279","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=85279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85281,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85279\/revisions\/85281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}