Asylum Seekers - Finance and benefits
Benefits
As an asylum seeker you are excluded from most benefits. This is because you are defined as a ‘person subject to immigration control.’
Subsistence support
Asylum subsistence support is financial assistance provided by the UK Home Office to asylum seekers who are destitute or likely to become destitute. It covers essential living needs such as food, clothing, and toiletries. Support is delivered via a pre-paid debit card, known as the ASPEN card. For more information visit Asylum support: What you'll get - GOV.UK
If you are experiencing a problem with your ASPEN card, please contact Migrant Help on 0808 8010 503
Migrant Help 0808 8010 503
Asylum Support Appeals Project - this organisation provides asylum-seekers with free legal representation and advice in their asylum support appeals.
Asylum support: What you'll get - GOV.UK
Migrant Help on 0808 8010 503
Get specialist immigration advice - Citizens Advice
British Red Cross - a humanitarian charity helping refugees and asylum seekers.
Asylum Aid - a charity providing legal representation to vulnerable people seeking asylum in the UK.
Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit - an organisation providing advice, support and representation to people subject to immigration control.
Migrant Legal Help - a charity supporting asylum seekers, refugees and victims of human trafficking and modern slavery.
Rights of Women - a women's charity providing women legal advice and information.
Refugee Action - a charity providing advice and support to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK and campaigning for a fairer asylum system.
The Refugee Council - a charity providing advice to refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK.
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If you need immigration advice ensure that you get the advice from someone who is either registered with Immigration Advice Authority (IAA) to give such advice or exempt from such registration. You can check the IAA website, which lists all advisers and advice organisations that are either IAA-registered or exempt from requiring such registration.