The Home Office’s Windrush fund helped only one person by end of 2018.
Only one person had been granted emergency financial support by the Home Office’s Windrush hardship fund by the end of last year according to the latest report on the government’s progress in resolving the fallout from the scandal. The fund was set up in June 2018 to assist persons who faced becoming destitute, severely in debt or homeless as a result of the government’s decision to classify them as illegal immigrants, and thereby preventing them from working or receiving benefits.
The news was met with dismay by those who have been campaigning for better treatment of those affected by the Home Office’s handling of Windrush cases.
The Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed in his monthly update on the work of the Windrush taskforce that the number of people who have died after being wrongly detained or removed from the UK has increased to 17. Officials are still trying to trace a further 21 people they believe were wrongly removed from the UK.
