Claiming benefits has no effect on a citizenship application. Hello CR001, Thank you very much for your prompt reply. If I claimed Income support before the grant of ILR will that affect my application? I remebered just now that I claimed income support when I lost my job in early 1992 and since my ...

Hello I have been living in the UK for the past 29 years. I was granted ILR in 1994 based on my marriage but the marriage broke down soon after and I started claiming Income support and Housing benefit etc. as I was a single mother and my son was 5 years old at that time. In 2004 I started claiming ...