No, homeless veterans are not being evicted to house migrants

On Thursday (30 July), 11 homeless veterans were served eviction notices – to make way, social media users claimed, for asylum seekers.

“You have migrants who we don’t have a clue about being given everything they need,” Scott Berry, one of the residents at the Bolton residential home told the Telegraph . “We are veterans, and they don’t give a damn.”

Social media lit up with condemnation. “Typical. Can’t even support our own,” fumed one user. “Why are British veterans being made homeless to house migrants?” asked another.

There is a simple answer to this question. They aren’t.

“These claims are entirely false,” a spokesperson for Qualitas Housing , the group who run the veteran’s residential home, said. The eviction notices related to a conflict over housing benefit; asylum seeke