Migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel is entitled to Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit AND is now renting room in £100,000 house

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Migrant who walked through the Channel Tunnel is entitled to Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit (thoughts on this please)
AND is now renting room in £100,000 house

• Abdul Haroun made 5000-mile month-long journey to Folkestone in August
• 40-year-old is entitled to claim Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit
• He qualified because he was granted leave to remain before he was bailed
• Haroun now rents a room in £100,000 semi-detached house in Birmingham

A Sudanese refugee who walked 31 miles through the Channel Tunnel to get to Britain has been spotted going to the job centre and attending a mosque near his new home.

He is automatically qualified for Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit because he was granted leave to remain at Christmas

Abdul Haroun, 40 (pictured above), is entitled to claim Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit, of around £700 a month, and is now renting a room in a £100,000 semi-detached house in Perry Barr, Birmingham, close to Aston Villa's stadium.

Abdul is automatically qualified for Job Seekers Allowance and housing benefit because he was granted leave to remain at Christmas, a few days before being released on bail after his perilous journey through the tunnel in August 2015.
Charity Kent Refugee Help helped him find a home so he could get bail.
A volunteer for the group, which relies on public donations, said: 'They [refugees] can apply for benefits and apply for work.
'That's what people want to do, they want a normal life.'..