Migrant families take home record £12BILLION in universal credit claims in 'insult' to British taxpayers

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Migrant families take home record £12BILLION in universal credit claims in 'insult' to British taxpayers.

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Migrant families have been revealed to take home a record-breaking £12billion in universal credit claims.

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Households with at least one foreign national claimed a staggering £11.9billion in universal credit during 2025, a 25 per cent jump compared with the £9.5billion paid out in 2024.

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There was a significant increase from £7.5billion the previous year, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) data, secured through freedom of information requests by the Centre for Migration Control, show.The figures show that roughly one in six universal credit payments — 15.6 per cent of the total — went to such households over the past year.Of the £11.9billion total, some £7.7billion — equivalent to 65 per cent — was directed to claimants who were out of work.The remaining claims were split across households where at least one foreign national was from inside the European Economic Area.The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has attracted backlash from her own party after announcing a sweeping set of...

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