Posted on 04/23/2011 10:43:53 PM PDT by george76
A family of 12 asylum-seekers is being put up in a vast house costing taxpayers nearly £1,500 a week...
The Ethiopian couple and their ten children are receiving a staggering £1,460 a week in housing benefit alone.
The jobless couple will also be eligible for other handouts such as unemployment and child benefits, which could potentially add up to an additional £1,300 a week.
Council officials, who refused to give further details of the case, found the family a mini mansion after they arrived in London from Africa in the past few weeks. It was not revealed whether the family is suspected of entering the UK illegally before claiming asylum.
The couple receive a weekly sum of £1,462.90, according to the council’s housing benefits claims department, meaning that the family will cost taxpayers £76,000 in housing benefit alone if allowed to stay in the property for 12 months.
The couple would realistically have to be among the nation’s top earners on wages of £230,000 before tax to afford to spend the same amount of money on rent or a mortgage.
It is yet another example of benefits claimants being put up in huge homes at the expense of taxpayers who could never afford such a property themselves.
The bill for housing benefit has risen from £14billion ten years ago to £21billion – more than the country spends on policing and universities combined.
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A spokesman for Tower Hamlets council refused to comment on the Ethiopian family, saying: ‘We ensure all claims are processed in line with current guidance.’
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Looks like the British ruling class hates Englishmen as much as the American ruling class hates Americans.
This is by design by the Globalists, Cloward and Piven on the Western World.
Gotta git mama an the chilluns packed fer a trip ta merry ol' England!
Unreal. This is obscenity on a level that is almost too hard to believe.
I mean, what does the average, hard working, tax paying Briton think of this sh!t? The UK government is paying these boat people something like a quarter million dollars a year for simply existing!
I could say the Brit government is full of idiots, but would be hypocritical, their American counterparts across the pond are currently going equally berserker.
I’m beginning to think I’m the real victim...
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That’s $4,558.14 a week in US dollars. Quick, where do I sign up?
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