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Now Abdul is refugee, he’s got the same support available to him as another UK national would do. He can apply for social housing, he can apply for benefits and he no longer has the no recourse to public funds restriction applied to him. The risk to him though is that he’s now got to do all of this, he’s now got to fill out all these forms in his second language, he’s got to know all the numbers to put in, he’s got to go out and find himself somewhere to live because he’s unlikely to be highest priority on a local authority housing list. And he’ll also need to leave the accommodation that he’s in through asylum support quite quickly, so the biggest risk to him is that he could become homeless again at the point that he’s got to leave. It’ll take him a while to get his benefits through, it’ll take a while to get his national insurance number and he’s got no other income in that time. But once that comes through he can apply for benefits and he can start looking for a job as well.