Immigrants with multiple wives will get more benefits, officials admit

 

Immigrants with multiple wives will receive higher benefits payments in future as Government attempts to tackle the problem backfire. 

One Man, Three Wives, and Taxpayer-Funded Benefits – Is Britain’s Welfare System Encouraging What the Law Forbids?

Let’s talk about a legal contradiction that’s flying under the radar.

 

We now have reports of polygamous households in Britain – where a man has multiple “wives” under unofficial religious arrangements – potentially claiming thousands in extra welfare benefits. And this is happening while polygamy itself remains illegal under UK law (bigamy carries a prison sentence).

 

Take the case of Nabilah Phillips, a former Cambridge engineering PhD student who chose to become a second wife, and then a third wife joined the family. Her husband, Hasan, admits juggling three separate London households is “like spinning plates.”

 

But here’s the uncomfortable question nobody seems to be answering clearly: How can the state simultaneously criminalise polygamy, yet allow benefit rules that effectively reward it?

Under current rules, a husband with multiple partners may claim additional Universal Credit or housing benefit for each “household” – because each wife is recognised as a single parent. Taxpayers end up subsidising arrangements that the law says shouldn’t exist in the first place.

 

That’s not a judgement on anyone’s culture or faith. It’s about consistency.

If polygamy is illegal, the welfare system shouldn’t be structured to fund it – whether directly or by loophole. Otherwise, what exactly are we saying? “It’s illegal, unless you call it something else”?

Strolling in a park, a London businessman and his THREE wives - just one of up to 20,000 such multi-wife marriages in polygamy Britain. 

As a bright, eager student at Cambridge University, with one degree already under her belt, Nabilah Phillips could look forward to a successful career and comfortable future.

After completing her engineering PhD she would, perhaps, take up a coveted, highly-paid job in industry, or stay on as an academic lecturing the next generation.

Instead, however, Nabilah, now 35, took an extremely unexpected path. She abandoned her studies, forfeiting her hard-won university place and entered a polygamous marriage, becoming the second wife of London businessman Hasan Phillips, 32 — who has since acquired a third wife.

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