Ministers consider halting benefits for young workers to keep migrant pledge

News sources reported on the 11 August 2015 that United Kingdom government efforts to place restrictions on immigrants from other EU countries claiming in-work benefit for four years would need to apply to Britons too. Otherwise, this would break EU law, unless it was a reform agreed at the EU level by treaty change.

Britons aged 18 to 22 claiming benefits such as tax credits and child benefit would also be caught by the new rules.

• Primary Source

BBC News, 11.08.15: EU migrant benefit plan 'could hit thousands of young Britons' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33850247

ESO: Background information: People from abroad: what benefits can they claim? http://www.europeansources.info/record/people-from-abroad-what-benefits-can-they-claim/

ESO: Background information: Changes to benefits rules must be seen in context of broader reform push http://www.europeansources.info/record/changes-to-benefits-rules-must-be-seen-in-context-of-broader-reform-push/

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