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9 June 2021
Asylum madness
Reprinted from the Private Eye – June 9 2021 As hundreds of desperate asylum seekers are still struggling to feed themselves and their families over two weeks after the failed introduction of new pre-paid cash cards, Priti Patel faces tricky questions over the choice of the new private contractor responsible for the…
7 June 2021
Aspen card crisis continues – but still no apology from Patel
Thousands of asylum seekers, including families with babies and children, are still being left without money for food, almost two weeks after the failed introduction of new pre-paid cash cards by the Home Office’s contractor PrePaid Financial Services, after it took over from Sodexo. Verity, a mother of…
2 June 2021
Having problems with your Aspen Card ? Take action now.
For U.K. Asylum Seekers. Positive Action in Housing has prepared this *digital self help tool* to help asylum seekers, lawyers dealing with aspen card issues The Aspen Card Scandal is affecting around 19K-20K asylum seekers in the U.K. and around 1500 in Glasgow. The Home Office has issued 6,000…
1 June 2021
The Aspen Card Crisis and the Home Office’s bureaucratic slow violence against refugees
The Home Office has privately admitted that thousands of asylum seekers continue to be left without working payment cards for more than ten days after their financial support was cut off during a Home Office contract changeover.
28 May 2021
The Aspen Card Crisis
Thousands of asylum seeking families are believed to have been left without any money for food or essential purchases for over a week because of a shambolic changeover of debit cards. Complaints have flooded in to Positive Action in Housing – and NGOs across the U.K. – since May 24,…
25 May 2021
More impoverishment for Glasgow Asylum Seekers as Aspen card switch leaves families Without Food or Money
Positive Action in Housing, a refugee and migrants homelessness charity, is receiving a high volume of reports of impoverishment from asylum seekers in Glasgow and elsewhere across the U.K. Complaints have flooded in since Monday when the Home Office ended its Aspen Card contract with Sodexo and switched to…
16 May 2021
The lessons to be learned from Glasgow’s Home Office stand-off
By Mike Small Reprinted from The National THE inspirational peaceful protest of Kenmure Street shows not just a model for resisting the racist British Home Office, but a template for self-determination. For a Scotland stuck in perpetual limbo between the democracy it aspires to be and the Scotland stuck…
15 May 2021
Statement re unsuccessful immigration enforcement action
Lawyers acting for the two men are still investigating the full background to the case, Mr Lakhvir Singh and Mr Sumit Sehdev are both in their thirties and of Indian origin. At the time that they were detained neither had active legal representation. A legal observer from Positive Action in…
14 May 2021
Glasgow Says No Pasaran To Home Secretary Priti Patel
Glasgow Protest: Lakhvir Singh was detained along with Sumit Sehdevi when the UK Border Agency ordered a raid on a Glasgow street this morning. With lawyer Jelina Berlow Rahman, Trustee of Positive Action in Housing, who has taken up the cases alongside Latta & Co Solicitors. Campaigners expect further dawn…
13 May 2021
Protesters block dawn raid vans in Glasgow to chants of Let them Go
Commenting on a dawn raid in Glasgow today which led to the local community blocking immigration raid vans, Robina Qureshi, Director of Positive Action in Housing said: “We have seen a brilliant show of support from the local community for their neighbours from immigrant and asylum seeking backgrounds who…
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