{"id":87878,"date":"2026-04-16T22:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87878"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:08:27","slug":"mahmood-to-ban-criminal-migrants-from-receiving-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/mahmood-to-ban-criminal-migrants-from-receiving-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmood to ban criminal migrants from receiving 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\/AA213RTG.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=1106&amp;y=161&amp;s=175&amp;d=175\" alt=\"The proposals will give new discretionary powers to Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary - Wiktor Szymanowicz\/Future Publishing via Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asylum seekers who commit crimes or\u00a0<a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/law-firms-helping-migrants-pose-gay-asylum\/\" 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}\">lie about their status<\/a> will lose their right to benefits and free accommodation under plans to be put to Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mahmood-to-ban-criminal-migrants-from-receiving-benefits\/ar-AA213yes?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e15b8c7ec049e49b76986ce81028a8&amp;ei=68\">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 who commit crimes or\u00a0lie about their status will lose their right to benefits and free accommodation under plans to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Child-migrant.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878","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=87878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87879,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87878\/revisions\/87879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}