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UK visa system bars EU migrants from benefits for five years

12:30 04/01/2021
The UK’s new visa and immigration system will ban EU migrants from accessing state benefits for five years. Following the end of free movement between the EU and UK , as of 1 January 2021, EU...

EU immigrants to be required to work in UK before claiming benefits

16:59 05/06/2013
A UK newspaper has reported that the UK is to require EU citizens to work in the UK for 'up to a year' before they can claim benefits. If this happens, it will escalate a dispute between the UK and...