Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleThe Home Office plans to ask asylum seekers to pay back £10,000 to cover their own housing and financial support once they start working, in a system similar to student loans. New powers introduced to Parliament by Shabana Mahmood on Monday will enable the Home Office to recover these costs from adults who received support while their asylum claim was pending. Charities and campaigners have condemned the proposals as “performative cruelty” and an “extra tax on refugees”, arguing they will impede integration and fail to address chronic delays in the asylum system. The Home Office said that only those with “sufficient” funds would be required to pay, but further details on which asylum seekers will be affected and how repayments will be managed are still being finalised. This policy aims to reduce the £4bn annual cost of asylum support, alongside recent announcements of new safe routes for refugees through community and university sponsorship, inspired by a Canadian model. In fullAsylum seekers to be billed £10,000 to cover own support once they start earning moneyThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

Migrants are expected to have to pay back around £10,000 before they can settle in the UK

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The cash could be deducted from their pay cheques in monthly instalments once they get a job, similar to a student loan.

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The home secretary has announced that asylum seekers will be made to pay up to £10,000 towards the cost of their accommodation once they start earning.

Plans announced by the United Kingdom's Home Office to make people granted asylum in the country pay back around 10,000 pounds ($13,233) toward their costs once they start earning…

The average sum includes the cost of providing accommodation and living costs, as well as the sums spent on processing claims and any legal appeals.