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With her visa due to expire, her caseworkers wrote to her warning her benefits could be stopped, causing her further anxiety.

“I can’t believe I’m getting out,” she told a caseworker over the phone, scanning her clothes hangers, handbags, space heater, and flower pots.

All contained what MoD caseworkers on the resettlement scheme regarded as "credible" evidence of service with the Triples units.

The WSC said its caseworkers dealt with 158 farm labourers in one month last summer and referred 19 cases involving 101 individuals to enforcement agencies.

Established in the wake of the 2009 expenses scandal, Ipsa oversees both MPs' pay and expenses, including the salaries of the constituency caseworkers, parliamentary assistants and other staff that work for them.