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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
do you honestly think we know of everyone who comes over?
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No, but you have to use what you do know to shape policy and views.
And by that you have to build in 'unknowns' into your data - although he got ribbed for it at the time, the Donald Rumsfeld 'Known Unknowns' and 'Unknown Unknowns' is valid way of quantifying things you don't know for analysis.
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Originally Posted by Carth
. . and yes Ben, legal migration and asylum seekers via the channel crossings are two completely different issues but have the same needs when they get here.
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We block asylum seekers and refugees awaiting a claim decision from working, so of course their state support needs are higher. But in addition to what you posted, this shows that legal immigrants do not have the same needs:
https://researchbriefings.files.parl...5/CBP-7445.pdf
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Are non-UK nationals more likely to receive out-of-work benefits
than UK-nationals?
No. Non-UK nationals at the point of NINo registration are less likely to be receiving key DWP out-of-work benefits than UK-nationals.
According to the Labour Force Survey, in the first three months of 2016 people born outside the UK comprised 17.6% of the working age population. At the same time, in February 2016, 7.4% of working-age individuals receiving key-out-work benefits were non-UK nationals.
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