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Executive Summary
This report explores undocumented migrants’ experiences of the COVID pandemic. It focuses on financial security, work, housing and access to healthcare, and highlights how in all these areas, the Government’s Hostile Environment policies have exacerbated the effects of the COVID crisis for undocumented people.

Key Findings
Financial insecurity
Long before the pandemic, the No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) restriction excluded migrants from the public safety net and pushed them into poverty, unsustainable debt, homelessness and unsafe and overcrowded housing. Since the UK’s COVID outbreak, causing rising unemployment and widespread loss of income, this situation has worsened significantly, leaving many destitute, or at risk of destitution.
Precarious employment
The illegal working offence and ‘right to work&rsqu…