Family of 12 asylum seekers land in UK - and are handed a ?6,000-a-month home paid fo

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Tower Hamlets in London is Britain's poorest borough

A family of 12 asylum-seekers is being put up in a vast house costing taxpayers nearly ?1,500 a week, it has emerged.
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.
First, the husband presented himself at a housing office in Tower Hamlets, East London, stating he was a refugee and homeless.
The bill for housing benefit has risen from ?14billion ten years ago to ?21billion ? more than the country spends on policing and universities combined.
Last night Tower Hamlets? opposition leader, Conservative councillor Peter Golds, said of the latest case: ?It is utterly, utterly ridiculous. Why do they need to be housed in one of the most expensive areas of Britain, at great cost to ordinary families who cannot afford the same for themselves?
?Paying a yearly rate of ?76,000 for one family shows the ludicrous amount of public money being paid to put people into expensive housing.?
Benefits payouts in Tower Hamlets alone have cost the taxpayer a mammoth ?223million in just one year.
Figures show the council ? the poorest in the nation ? is spending a third of a million pounds a year on housing just ten families, including the Ethiopian couple and their children.

[Snowy79]

It's about time the Goverment gave people entering this Country the same as they would receive in their home land. This way the lilly livered liberals and PC brigade couldn't accuse us of victimising them and it wouldn't be more beneficial for them to come here.

[Canker_Canison]

Why do I get the feeling that ever since these benefit claims from immigrants first came to light. The press now seems to find them almost on demand.
Maybe they approach immigrants & coach them on how to apply for these huge handouts. Ok, lets drop the maybe, I believe they are orchestrating these stories.
Finding people living in very bad areas, moving them to very affluent estates then showing them how to fill in the forms so they get everything they want. In return the 'reporters' break this ghastly misuse of public funds.

[Snowy79]

Got to agree with you Canker. Some of the reports may be staged. We saw it with the World Cup in Africa. Reporters were throwing money in bins then taking pictures of the locals looking for it then putting a headline about how poverty is so bad that the locals have to scrounge for scraps of food. We also do it in UK by taking pictures of Scousers in Shell suits. ;-)

[nara]

I believe they are orchestrating these stories.

Surely the "Daily Mail" wouldn't do anything as despicable and underhand as that?

[SouthernComfort]

Ever get the feeling the Government/Media wants you to be racist, don't buy into the hype. Does wonders for recruitment though, I suppose. Lets remember who's in charge.