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False claims often spread about what level of help asylum seekers are given while awaiting decisions on their application to stay in the UK.

These details can be obscured by not explaining properly where asylum seekers get their support, or exaggerating what support they are given.

Examples where items have been donated by a charity to a limited number of asylum seekers – for instance mobile phones – can be exaggerated to imply the Government gives that item to anyone who claims asylum. This is not always explicitly made clear by the person making the claim, leaving the

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