Guidance

Assessing destitution: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on assessing and making decisions on asylum support claims based on destitution.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 25 May 2011
• Last updated: 30 August 2023
  Show all updates

  1. 30 August 2023

     Updated to clarify that a screening interview is not needed to access asylum support.

  2. 9 November 2021

     Updated guidance.

  3. 6 November 2019

     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.

  4. 8 February 2017

     Archived 'Assessing destitution v2'.

  5. 3 July 2014

     Updated guidance.

  6. 25 May 2011

     First published.

Documents

Assessing destitution (accessible)

HTML

Assessing destitution

PDF, 203 KB, 17 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

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.