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Legal Update: Asylum seekers face benefit gap

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  • Tuesday, January 8, 2013
  • | CYP Now
With an estimated 10,000 asylum-seeking children living far below the poverty line, Chris Sykes, legal officer at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines concerns over support offered to families

Child asylum seekers forced to live below poverty line

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  • Tuesday, April 10, 2012
  • | CYP Now
Asylum support levels for children and families have left around 10,000 children in severe poverty, because payments fall "alarmingly below" mainstream benefit levels, a report by The Children's Society has found.

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