I'm an asylum seeker. I turned down £3,000 from the Home Office to leave the UK

I'm an asylum seeker. I turned down £3,000 from the Home Office to leave the UK

Asylum seekers are willing to turn down the Home Office’s offer of money to leave the country, the Government has been warned. Families in hotels whose asylum claims have been rejected have been presented with an offer of up to £40,000 if they depart the UK. The pilot project builds upon an existing scheme that offers £3,000 to each migrant willing to voluntarily return to their home country. But one asylum seeker from South America told The i P…