David Cameron has announced migrants will not be entitled
to housing benefit immediately upon arriving in the UK. The prime minister made the pledge as part of
a series measures to crackdown on ‘benefit tourism’. Transitional controls
limiting Bulgarian and Romanian workers accessing the UK’s labour market expire
at the end of the year. Migrants wanting
to claim benefits have to take an ‘habitual residency test’, which requires
them to prove a legal right to reside in the UK and that they intend to settle
in the country. Some EU citizens currently do not have to take the test. Read
more on Inside Housing.
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