EEA3 and claiming benefits

[varna1983]

Dear all,
I will be very thankful if you could advise on the following:
A friend of mine is married to a British citizen and is an EEA citizen as well exercising treaty rights as an employee (having a blue card). She wants to apply for british citizenship on the basis of exercising treaty rights as an EU for d past 5 years however she also claimed Housing benefits and was not in employment and claimed JSA. Did she broke her treaty rights excersise and not eligible to apply for BC?

[Obie]

Benefit claim will not affect eligibility for British citizenship, provided the benefit was lawfully obtained.