Guidance

Conditions of support: caseworker guidance

Immigration staff guidance on conditions that can affect asylum support such as breaches, antisocial behaviour, racist incidents and overpayment.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 29 November 2010
• Last updated: 5 March 2026
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  1. 5 March 2026

     Updated guidance to add illegal working as a reason to suspend or stop section 95, section 98 and section 4 support.

  2. 10 March 2023

     Updates to guidance to reflect removal of the 5 working day period for consideration of backdated payment applications and accessible version added.

  3. 14 May 2021

     New 'conditions of support' guidance which replaces the 'breach of conditions' guidance.

  4. 5 May 2015

     Updated guidance.

  5. 24 October 2014

     Updated guidance.

  6. 15 July 2014

     Updated guidance.

  7. 29 November 2010

     First published.

Documents

Conditions of support instruction (accessible)

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Conditions of support instruction

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UK Visas and Immigration guidance for staff which sets out the conditions attached to the provision of asylum support and the appropriate actions to take if it appears as though those conditions are not being met.