L’ufficio di casa vieta richiedenti asilo dall’acquisto di beni e servizi di lusso
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/home-office-bans-asylum-seekers-from-buying-luxury-goods-and-services
di Hadatopia
L’ufficio di casa vieta richiedenti asilo dall’acquisto di beni e servizi di lusso
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/30/home-office-bans-asylum-seekers-from-buying-luxury-goods-and-services
di Hadatopia
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> Similarly, those in self-catering accommodation who receive £49.18 a week may find it tricky to foot the bill for flowers (also on the list).
>basics such as audio books, toys, cards and photocopying are also on the list, along with entries to fortune tellers, carnivals and aquariums.
What’s the fucking point of restricting purchases of cards and flowers?
Purely performative given that the allowances wouldn’t allow for luxury goods to be purchased in the first place.
I’d imagine this will have the total opposite of the desired effect because opposition will ask why on earth can they afford luxury items in the first place?
>The internal Home Office document states: “The department has recently taken the decision to block specific Merchant Category Codes (MCCs) as a targeted measure to ensure that public funds should be used for the purpose for which they are provided: to support essential living needs. These restrictions are designed to uphold the integrity of public assistance programmes by preventing expenditure on goods and services that fall outside the scope of essential living needs – such as entertainment, luxury items and non-essential personal services.”
How long before somebody suggests these same rules for benefit claimants?
I love the idea that they’re *surviving* on their allowance of £50 per week…
Hell, I could live off £50 per week if the government paid for my food, accommodation, gym membership…etc etc etc
Without checking the article, I’d assume the pre-paid cards don’t allow purchases of certain items that under certain merchant category codes (MCCs) which carry a wider dragnet
Fight growing economic inequality? Rebuild public services? Provide greater opportunities for young people?
NO!
We need to punitively make the lives of a tiny number of asylum seekers worse, purely to appease a minority of people who have had their brains rotted away by anti-immigration slop on social media!