{"id":381421,"date":"2018-10-18T03:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-asylum-seekers-could-add-42-million-to-uk-economy\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T03:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T02:11:30","slug":"presstv-asylum-seekers-could-add-42-million-to-uk-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-asylum-seekers-could-add-42-million-to-uk-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Asylum seekers could add \u00a342 million to UK economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A new study has shown that asylum seekers, who are regularly attacked by Britain\u2019s right-wing media, could contribute \u00a342.4m to the UK economy if they were allowed to work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study by the Lift the Ban coalition, a group that campaigns for the right to work of asylum seekers, shows that if half of people seeking asylum earned a national average wage, \u00a342.4m would be recouped by the government through tax and national insurance payments and savings on financial support.<\/p>\n<p>The study also shows that the public is in favor of lifting the ban, with 71 per cent agreeing that people seeking asylum should have the right to work.<\/p>\n<p>People seeking asylum in the UK are only allowed to work if they have been waiting on an asylum claim for 12 months or more and they can fill a role on the \u201cshortage occupation\u201d list, which includes positions such as classical ballet dancers and geophysicists.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, this means people are essentially banned from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/17\/577295\/Britain-asylum-seekers-work-right-campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has shown that asylum seekers, who are regularly attacked by Britain\u2019s right-wing media, could contribute \u00a342.4m to the UK economy if they were allowed to work. The study by the Lift the Ban coalition, a group that campaigns for the right to work of asylum seekers, shows that if half of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}