Asylum seekers have been handed almost one million NHS ‘free passes’ in the last five years, official new data reveals.
The HC2 certificates give Britons on low incomes the right to free health services that most people would have to pay for.
This includes prescriptions, dental care, eye tests, wigs, and discounts for glasses, contact lenses, and travelling to and from appointments.
But figures released under freedom of information laws show most of the 1.56 million issued across the UK since 2020 were awarded to asylum seekers.
They accounted for 920,199, or 59 per cent, of the certificates awarded over this period the NHS Business Services Authority told the Telegraph.
