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Migrants: Cost of Living

Question for Home Office

UIN 59901, tabled on 10 October 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impacts of rises in the cost of living to people with no recourse to public funds.

Answered on

17 October 2022

The Government has no plans to revoke the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) policy. It is a well-established principle that migrants coming to the UK should be able to maintain and support themselves and their families without reliance on the welfare system. This protects taxpayer-funded public services from becoming overburdened. Successive governments have taken the view that access to benefits and other publicly funded services should reflect the strength of a migrant’s connections to the UK and, in the main, only become available to migrants when they have become settled here with indefinite leave to remain (ILR).

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