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Glasgow Live
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Sarah Hilley

Glasgow council supports asylum seekers getting right to work and free bus travel

Former Glasgow Girl Roza Salih has won agreement for the city council to support efforts to allow asylum seekers to work and get free bus travel.

It comes after a council meeting on Thursday heard that people are forced to live on £5.84 per day with the current system fuelling “mental health problems.”

Councillor Salih, a former refugee, brought a motion to council calling for the ban on work to be scrapped as she explained her own family’s experiences.

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