The Centre for Social Justice report - State of Dependency - reveals:
Almost two million foreign nationals now receive benefits or the state pension, a landmark inquiry reveals today.
In the first analysis of its kind, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) finds that approximately 1.85 million non-British adults received at least one form of welfare support or state pension in 2025, adjusting for those receiving more than one form of support.
The number is forecast to exceed two million by 2030.
The report also claims:
It identified 3,369 “welfare hotspots” – collectively home to nearly 900,000 people, a population larger than Leeds – where out-of-work claimant numbers exceed half of the working-age population.
The report also revealed that, since January 2020, non-EU nationals accounted for 2.1 million new payroll jobs, while payrolled jobs going to British nationals fell by 186,000. The out-of-work benefit caseload rose by 2.3 million over the same period.
The total working-age benefit bill is set to reach £136.1 billion in 2026/27 – almost £50 billion higher in real terms than in 2019/20.
So lots of these new jobs trumpeted by the government of the day are not in fact going to 'British' people but foreign nationals and that doesn't necessarily mean illegal immigrants just to be clear, as many of these foreign nationals will be from the EU and working here legally.
Furthermore some of the earnings from this work in the UK or benefits provided by the UK state - no-one knows how much - will not even be spent here but remitted to foreign countries to bolster their economies with some £9.3 billion being remitted in 2023 according to The Migration Observatory.
That's a net loss of £9.3 billion to the UK economy.
But even this data may be wrong because, as usual, no data is being kept about where the money went:
There are no recent data on the destination of remittances from the UK. The latest estimates from the World Bank are from 2021, based on the number of migrants in each country and their relative incomes.
However, these figures are likely to be a significant underestimate of the amount of money sent by migrants from the UK. Up to 2021, the World Bank also produced estimates of global remittances based on the number of migrants in each country and their relative incomes. These placed remittances from the UK much higher, at around £24.5bn in 2021, compared to official estimates of £7.5bn.