![]() In two separate high-profile cases, claimants have challenged these regulations as discriminating on the basis of nationality.ģ. ![]() The UK government then laid new regulations, The Social Security (Income-related Benefits) (Updating and Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, which came into force in May 2019, to stop pre-settled status from counting as a right to reside when claiming benefits, effectively requiring an additional right to reside for benefit eligibility. All EU nationals resident in the UK at the end of the transition period who want(ed) to continue to live in the UK thereafter were, and still are, required to apply to the EUSS.Ģ. In preparation for leaving the EU, the UK government launched the EU Settled Status scheme in March 2019, creating two new rights to reside – settled status and pre-settled status. This typically meant being a worker, or being the family member of a worker, and/or having kept that status for five years to gain permanent residence. Prior to Brexit, EU nationals and their family members had to show they had a “right to reside” in order to be eligible for key benefits. Memo for the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committeeġ. Principal Investigator at the EU Rights and Brexit Hub, Charlotte O’Brien, submitted the following as a memo to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee on 15th September 2021.
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