Some shelter seekers are misusing the payment card for gambling rather than their intended use for food and necessary.
Freedom of information request by Pavlightshom In the last one year, more than 6,500 payments were detected in gambling settings by asylum seekers.
The payment was made on the aspen card, the house office was given to the shelter seekers, who were waiting for the decision to avoid being destroyed with a small weekly top-up.
A spokesperson of the home office said that they were looking at the transaction and if a card was misused, immediate action would be taken.
When the shelter seekers come for the first time, they usually put a completely completely in catering hotels-and their aspen cards are given £ 9.95 a week, when they go to self-catering housing, it increases to £ 49.18 a week.
However, instead of purchasing the requirements, some refuge seekers have successfully used chip and pin aspen card to gamble on physical sites such as casino, slot machine arcade and national lottery retailers.
An attempt was made to gamble online using the card, but was blocked each time, and in some cases, cash withdrawals in gambling sites located using the ID number of the terminal.
FOI showed a peak of 227 attempts to use the card for gambling in a week last November and was the lowest effort in a week last July.
Chris Filp, the home secretary of the conservative shadow, said: “It is shocking that more than 6,000 illegal migrants have tried to use the money of British taxpayers working hard to gamble.
“The British taxpayer has put them in hotels, and now they slap us using funds given to play fund gambling.
“These illegal immigrants do not clearly require the money that they are given if they are snatching it in casino and arcade.”
The UK currently has around 80,000 aspen card users and has strict control and limitations on their use.
The BBC understands that action will be taken to ensure that physical gambling is not possible in the future.
A home office source said: “If anyone issued with an aspen card has managed to misuse them in a suggested manner, immediate action will be taken to fix that mistake.”
