The Astonishing Cost of Migrant Welfare in Britain

 

Remember, this is just the welfare costs; there are many other costs associated with migrants.

UK: Migrants receive nearly $1,300,000,000 in welfare benefits every month

Apr 1, 2026 9:00 am By Robert Spencer13 Comments

Remember: the whole migrant enterprise was sold to Europeans (and Britons) with the argument that the migrants would fill in the gaps in the workforce that a dwindling native population was leaving. Instead, the migrants went on welfare. Why? Because the Qur’an says that non-Muslims must pay for the upkeep of the Muslims; in the Islamic state, they “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.”

Keir Starmer, Prime Minister’s Office, Open Government License 3

Households with Migrants Claiming Nearly £1 Billion

in Welfare per Month in Britain

by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, March 30, 2026:

Foreign nationals are claiming nearly £1 billion in welfare benefits from the British state every month, further undercutting claims of the promised economic panacea by importing millions of migrants.

According to government data from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) obtained by Freedom of Information requests from Conservative MP Neil O’Brien, households with at least one foreign national claimed £941 million this month in Universal Credit benefits, The Telegraph reported.

The welfare scheme, intended to subsidise working-age households with low incomes in Britain, is extended to migrants after they are granted indefinite leave to remain or refugee status.

The FOI revealed that households with a migrant saw their benefits claims more than double over the past four years, with such households only receiving £461 million in March of 2022.

Last year alone saw a nearly 30 per cent rise in payments, jumping from £726 million in March of last year to nearly a billion per month this year.

In total, households with a foreign national accounted for 15.5 per cent of the £6.05 billion Universal Credit payments handed out this month, compared to 14.1 per cent four years ago.

Commenting on the findings, former health minister Neil O’Brien said: “The growth of benefit spending and the rate of migration are both much too fast, and the Government is doing far too little to change either trend.

“Migrants know that if they can make it to the UK, they will be allowed to stay. As long as that is true, we’ll see more and more coming. Our soft-touch welfare state makes this worse.”

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