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Polygamous immigrant families to be paid more benefits after Government blunder Extra wives will soon be able to claim full single person's benefits despite being married
Government admits loophole will exist because of their reforms
They do not want to recognise polygamy in any way, so treat extra wives as single, they told MailOnline
By Martin Robinson
PUBLISHED: 10:18, 30 July 2012 | UPDATED: 10:21, 30 July 2012

Immigrants with more than one wife because of their religion are to get higher benefits in future after Government attempts to reform the welfare system spectacularly backfired.
Under new rules, the extra wives in a polygamous household will for the first time be able to claim a full single person's allowance, while the original married couple will still get a married person's allowance, official papers have warned.
Currently people in Britain's polygamous families are treated differently and paid less benefits.
Error: The Department for Work and Pensions' reforms have inadvertently opened up a loophole for polygamous households
The extra wives currently receive reduced individual income support because the Government recognises their husband will also get the standard married allowance with his original wife.

But as part of the Coalition's wide-ranging benefit reforms this nuance has inadvertently been scrapped, opening up a loophole for Britain's thousand-plus polygamous households.
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These details were revealed in a paper published in the House of Commons library.
'Treating second and subsequent partners in polygamous relationships as separate claimants could mean that polygamous households receive more under universal credit than under the current rules for means-tested benefits and tax credits,' the document says.

The first Asian woman to receive a peerage, Baroness Flather, has spoken out widely on the issue of polygamous families claiming benefits.

There are around 1,000 polygamous homes in Britain, the majority of which are Muslim
'Under Islamic Sharia law, polygamy is permissible. So a man can return to Pakistan, take another bride and then, in a repetition of the process, bring her to England where they also have children together � obtaining yet more money from the state,' she wrote in the Mail last year.

'Because such Islamic multiple-marriages are not recognised in Britain, the women are regarded by the welfare system as single mothers � and are therefore entitled to the full range of lone-parent payments. We cannot continue like this.

'Why are they allowed to have more than one wife,' she added.
'We should prosecute one or two people for bigamy, that would sort it out.'

Currently in the UK it is illegal to marry more than once.
But if the multiple marriages took place abroad then it is not.
A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions told MailOnline said that the loophole will exist because extra wives in a polygamous home are treated as single.
'Polygamy is illegal in this country and it would be wrong for the benefits system to legitimise these arrangements by recognising them in any way,' they said.

It's about time benefits for ALL immigrants were stopped. These scroungers are taking enough money from us as this article clearly shows, and the UK is still in a recession with the government cutting services/benefits/ pensions etc right left and centre so why on earth are they still paying out to these people who obviously only come to the UK for these pay outs and freebies?

God bless the DWP. They take �400.00 a month away from the disabled people of this shafted country and give it to those in an ILLEGAL polygamous relationship. BRAVO
ROLL ON THE REVOLUTION.

2Anne · Joined: 04 May 2008 Posts: 399 Location: Norfolk

Why are these second wives allowed into the UK at all?
Totally disgusting. Can we really afford to support up to 4 wives for a muslim man. I read that 40% of muslim men are unemployed. Obviously there is no barrier to them taking extra wives as they are paid for by the British Taxpayer.
Polygamy is illegal in our country and the practice should be stopped and any wives more than 1 repatriated to their country of origin. They are not married in our law and are illegal immigrants. So are their children.