Migrant Benefit Ban To Be Fast-Tracked

[gWaPito]

A ban on EU migrants claiming benefits from the moment they arrive in the UK is to be fast-tracked amid fears of an influx of Bulgarians and Romanians in the new year.


The measure will be rushed through Parliament in time for the January 1 deadline when Bulgarian and Romanian nationals gain full rights to live and work in Britain.

Currently EU migrants are entitled to claim benefits as soon as they enter the UK.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/migrant-benefit-ban-fast-tracked-093608317.html?.tsrc=warhol#7uQaKVB

[joebloggs]

better than nothing, but 3 months is not a long time to wait or to be selling the big issue :biggrin:

[Iani]

It's the 19th December, and they expect us to believe they can rush a bill to be in place for the 1st January?
What idiots do they take us for!

If anything, they should close the "big issue" loophole, and retrospectively revoke any NI numbers issued to Big Issue sellers.
British homeless - who this was supposed to help - will have an NI number anyway. Why the blazes should this happen