Plans to give asylum seekers £100 a week to leave taxpayer-funded hotels will not be enough to cover housing costs and could put people at risk of homelessness and exploitation, experts have warned.

Home Office officials are reportedly proposing that migrants use the money to pay to live with a family or someone they know to accelerate the closure of asylum hotels .

The payments, which were criticised as ineffective and “gimmicky”, would be offered on top of the £49.18 a week asylum seekers receive to cover food and other living costs. New Feature

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The scheme, due to be trialled next year, is reportedly among options put to ministers to reduce the number of hotels, and any migrant would have to provide proof of appropriate accommoda

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