Social Security Benefits: EEA Nationals

(asked on 24th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many EEA migrants have been through the Genuine Prospect of Work assessment since May 2015; and how many such people have (a) had access to benefits denied and (b) been removed from the UK.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 27th January 2017

The numbers of EEA migrants who have been through the Genuine Prospect of Work assessment and had their benefit claim either ended or extended was published in August 2016 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/548225/analysis-of-eea-migrants-access-to-income-related-benefits-measures.pdf

Information on the number or EEA migrants who have been through the Genuine Prospect of work assessment and subsequently removed from the UK is not available.

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