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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for staff on determining whether a person applying for support under either Section 98, 95 or 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 is destitute and therefore meets one of the qualifying criteria to receive that support.
Updated to clarify that a screening interview is not needed to access asylum support.
Updated guidance.
Guidance updated, including:Making the text of the guidance clearer and more concise.Reflecting comments and observations of external organisations that attend the Asylum Support Group of the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum.Removal of the destitution threshold tables as these are no longer necessary.