Petition Save money - Do not pay for translators if benefit claimants have lived in the UK for more than one year

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If any migrant or asylum seeker has lived in the UK for 12 months or more and is applying for benefit. The government should stop paying for translators. The government would save a large amount of money. Those that are applying would have the onus to learn the English language and would integrate sooner.

This petition closed early because of a General Election

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Date closed 30 March 2015
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