EU Renegotiation

A good deal of money?

Now that some actual data has been released about the number of recent arrivals from elsewhere in the EU claiming tax credits, and we know something too about the deal on the renegotiating table, there’s the basis for very rough estimation of what money might be saved by the proposed…

Details, details …

Whatever the actual scope of the restrictions proposed on in-work benefits, and whether they now apply only to some tax credits (rather than the manifesto-promised child benefit too), it’s interesting to look at what the draft Decision says about the circumstances in which such restrictions…

Not ‘who benefits?’ but ‘what benefits?’

In promising changes to the UK’s relationship with the EU, the Conservative Manifesto 2015 talked about tax credits and child benefit and access to social housing.

We will insist that EU migrants who want to claim tax credits and…

Binning the turkey?

Entitlement to social security benefits provided by EU Regulation 883/2004 is clear - the conditions for these cannot discriminate directly or indirectly against workers from other member states. This has been reiterated any number of times by the European Court of Justice (ECJ).