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Sunday, 7 December 2025

Fury As Nearly 350,000 Migrant Families Could Get Extra Welfare After Rachel Reeves’s Budget

 New research shows 350,000 foreign-born families could get extra welfare handouts because of Rachel Reeves’s Budget. The Express has more.

The research also found that almost 200,000 of them are from just 10 countries.

Families from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria are set to benefit the most from the £3 billion decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap, the analysis found. Tory MP Nick Timothy, who carried out the research, told the Sun: “You have to ask whose side this Government is on.

“They promised not to put up taxes after their first disastrous Budget, which itself broke their tax promises made before the General Election.

“Now they are actively choosing to increase welfare spending — when they should be cutting it — while making working families pay the price.

“And the beneficiaries, as this research shows, will disproportionately be immigrant families who have never paid into the system.” …

The Chancellor used her Budget last month to hike taxes by £26 billion, with a significant amount of the money used to fund welfare payments such as axing the two-child benefit cap....<<<Read More>>>...