EU migrants face 100 new questions to make it harder to obtain benefits.

[dipsydoodle]

Income-related benefits such as housing benefit, income support and council tax benefit are to be harder for EU migrants to obtain from Friday as they face a string of 100 questions, including the reasons they were unable to find a job in their home country. They will also be asked about their ability to speak English.

The new 100 questions in the fresh habitual residence test is being rushed out ahead of the transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians being lifted on 1 January.

The European Union insists on the free movement of workers within the EU, but the government believes it is legally entitled to ask tougher questions of migrants before they are entitled to make benefit claims.

EU workers are already asked to prove they have been genuinely seeking work in the UK.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/13/eu-migrants-new-questions-benefits-romanians-bulgarians

[beachbum bob]

1. limts must be in place....

otherwise how do you control cost on your country's tax payers?? A govt has every right to ask questions and verify the intent of all migrant workers/families. In most country's you can't just go to it and become a ward of the state. You have to show financial ability.