'I wan go job but I no well': Pidgin English among 165 languages translated (at taxpayers expense) to help jobless claim doleThe Department for Work and Pensions has hired a translator who speaks Pidgin, a variant of English, despite only 2 per cent of Nigerians using the dialect.
It means a claimant who tells Jobcentre staff: ‘I wan go job but I no well’, would have his words translated to ‘I would like to work but I am sick’.Millions of pounds in taxpayer's money is being spent on paying interpreters to help foreign-speaking nationals claim benefitsThe Department for Work and Pensions offers translators in 165 languages and used interpreters 271,695 times from October 2010 to September last year.
The most popular language is Polish, which was used more than 51,000 times.
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