UK Offers £40K to Failed Asylum Seekers to Leave

0:00On March 11th, the home office launched a pilot scheme last week, offering failed asylum-seeker families up to 40,000 pounds to leave Britain, voluntarily, that's 10,000 pounds per person for groups of up to four. Officials notified 150 such families, whose claims have been fully rejected. These families face the seven-day deadline, which runs out at midnight tonight. The offer is far more generous than the old cap of 3,000 pounds, and aims to cut costs from housing them in hotels, which runs about 1,158,000 pounds a year per family. Critics call the payouts absurd, especially since the scheme targets people from safe home countries. It comes after labor scrapped the previous government's Rwanda Plan, amid ongoing small boat arrivals from France over 1,200 in the past week alone. The home office won't say yet how many families have signed up by this evening. Officials hand the amount per person could adjust based on results, with potential roll out to thousands more if it works.

1:01Meanwhile, channel crossings continue, pushing totals past 68,000 since labor took power as the government weighs next steps on returns.