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Tales from abroad: Returning home is not always the remedy
It says nothing about contribution-based benefits such as New Style Jobseeker's Allowance and New Style Employment and Support Allowance, which depend on a claimant's own National Insurance record rather than their immigration status, and it has no bearing on Statutory Sick Pay, which employers fund directly regardless of a worker's visa conditions.
A day earlier, the ministry had announced a new Ghanaian Diaspora Consular Fund while briefing journalists on the evacuation of 1,964 Ghanaians from South Africa amid a resurgence of xenophobic violence, an exercise costing the state more than GH¢49 million and never budgeted for.
A payment made against a named, dated invoice is easier to audit than a lump sum handed to someone already under financial strain, and it removes the temptation, real in any emergency fund, for money meant for one crisis to be stretched across several.
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