Claiming if not worked in a home EU country?

If a person did not work in their home EU country, would they have a right to claim JSA and other benefits in 3 months after arrival to UK?

chrisnorth wrote:If a person did not work in their home EU country, would they have a right to claim JSA and other benefits in 3 months after arrival to UK?

The UK has stopped all benefits to EUs now including benefits for their children, due to high numbers arriving and immediatley asking for benefits from the UK taxpayers. You claim benefits from your own EU country or from a country you have been working in, while you look for work in the UK.

If after 3 months you still can't find work, there is a tougher residency test for EU nationals for benefits and even if you pass that, the UK will now only pay for 6 months to EU citizens if they don't work.

Petaltop wrote:

chrisnorth wrote:the UK will now only pay for 6 months to EU citizens if they don't work.

I was wrong. The UK will now only pay benefits to EEAs job seekers for 3 months, and that will now include those claiming prior to January 2014.

"If the EEA jobseeker is unable to satisfy the GPoW assessment, then they will lose the right to reside as a ‘qualified person’ under the EEA 2006 Regulations and will no longer be entitled to receive income-based JSA. They will also lose entitlement to Housing Benefit. If the claimant has dependant children, they will also cease to be entitled to Child Benefit and Child Tax Credits."

"Note that the three-month period will apply both to jobseekers and those who have retained worker status within this group of ‘stock cases’. The justification given in the Memo is that the “relevant period” in the EEA 2006 Regulations is not being applied to stock cases “as all claimants will already have had much longer than this period by the time of their GPoW assessment interview”
https://www.freemovement.org.uk/benefit ... 4-changes/