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THOUSANDS of people have signed a petition calling on the UK Government to suspend regulations affecting more than 1.4 million migrants, which bar them from accessing public funds. The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) and the Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) said the suspension of the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) rules, which are attached to more than a million migrants’ visas, would exclude them from the public safety net. Their call came as JCWI research released yesterday showed a fifth of migrants surveyed, who were working before the pandemic, lost their job since it started and almost 75% were subject to NRPF and could not access government help.
Up to 1.3million have left the UK in the past year due to Covid-19 and the shortage poses a risk to potential output in the longer term , the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned.
The UK’s population could shrink by 2 per cent after the coronavirus pandemic if "missing" migrant workers do not return to the UK or are not replaced, a watchdog has warned. The latest report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) cited research that suggested up to 1.3 million people might have left the country over the course of the crisis . The OBR, which analyses the country’s economic forecast, said this posed a “risk to potential.