"Whether the motivation is malicious or politically manipulative, government cannot continue to treat failed asylum seekers like this.
The first person I met on section 4 asylum support lived in Stockton-on-Tees, with her daughter who was nearly two. I hadn't heard of the Azure card, or any of the mean-minded hassles that went along with it – that your benefits, such as they are, come in vouchers rather than cash, so you can't get a bus or make a phone call, can't post a letter or buy a pint of milk from your corner shop. You have to be housed three miles from a shop that takes your Azure card; that can mean a six-mile walk every time you want to buy something."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/30/asylum-theresa-may-private-fiefdom