Volunteers willing to offer their homes to Ukrainian refugees will receive a £350 monthly ‘thank you’.
Details of the accommodation scheme, to be launched tomorrow, have now been released by the Government.
Those happy to help with Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since WWII will be required to commit to the programme for at least six months.
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A website through which people can express their interest in housing a refugee will launch on Monday as part of the Homes for Ukraine project.
Those offering accommodation will be vetted and Ukrainian applicants will undergo security checks as well.
While signing up would require volunteers to commit to offering six months of support, people sponsoring refugees are encouraged to keep up the offer for as long as they can.
Ukrainians who are sponsored through the new humanitarian route will be granted three years leave to remain in the UK, with entitlement to work and access public services.
Homes for Ukraine will allow individuals, charities, community groups and businesses to bring people escaping the war to safety – even if they have no ties to the UK.
Michael Gove, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, said the UK “stands behind Ukraine in their darkest hour”, and urged people to “join the national effort” to help refugees, WalesOnline reported.
This morning he said he expected the first refugees making use of the new sponsorship route to come to the UK "in a week's time".
He told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "People can register their interest on Monday.
"Matching will be taking place from Friday. I would expect that in a week's time we'll see the first people coming here under the scheme."
Labour cautioned that “too many questions remain unanswered” about the new scheme. Shadow levelling-up secretary Lisa Nandy said it was unclear what support would be offered to vulnerable children and older people, whether provision would be made for unaccompanied children, and what help would go to local government, sponsoring organisations and housing providers.
Mr Gove said on Sunday that "just over" £10,000 would be made available per Ukrainian for each local government area, adding: "Then there'll be additional payments for those children who are of school age and who need to be accommodated within the educational system."
More than 2.3m people are said to have fled the war in Ukraine since the Russian invasion and another 1.9m are displaced within the country, a UN official has reported.
Other schemes being discussed include the seizure of Russian oligarchs’ multi-million pound mansions to house Ukrainian refugees.
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