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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered restricting access to non-contributory benefits for non-UK nationals until they have completed a minimum qualifying period of lawful residence and tax contribution.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has considered restricting access to non-contributory benefits for non-UK nationals until they have completed a minimum qualifying period of lawful residence and tax contribution.
On 20 November my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary launched a consultation on proposals for a fairer pathway to settlement, the point at which foreign nationals generally gain access to public funds. These plans include doubling the standard qualifying period for settlement from 5 to 10 years, with the opportunity to reduce this period based on their contributions to the UK economy and society and longer periods for those who contribute less.
The consultation also covers proposals that benefits might not be available to those who have settled status, reserving them, instead, for those who have earned British citizenship.
You can find more details in here: “Restoring Order and Control: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy (accessible)”, and in “Open consultation: Earned settlement”.
In conjunction with these reforms, my Department will consult in due course on a change to taxpayer-funded benefits to prioritise access for those who are making an economic contribution to the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering disabled people additional non-means-tested support with their energy bills.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of offering disabled people additional non-means-tested support with their energy bills.
The Government has announced unprecedented support within its Growth Plan to protect households and businesses from high energy prices. The Energy Price Guarantee and the Energy Bill Relief Scheme are supporting millions of households and businesses with rising energy costs, and they will continue to do so from now until April next year.
The Government will continue to monitor the prices of energy and will consider further intervention to protect UK households from extraordinary prices.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what non-contributory benefits are currently paid to people who do not reside in the United Kingdom; what is the annual total paid in relation to each of those benefits to such people; and under what conditions they are eligible or continue to be eligible when...
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what non-contributory benefits are currently paid to people who do not reside in the United Kingdom; what is the annual total paid in relation to each of those benefits to such people; and under what conditions they are eligible or continue to be eligible when...
The annual total paid to people who do not reside in the United Kingdom in relation to each non-contributory benefit is given in the table below. Figures are not available for the costs of paying child benefit and/or the child tax credit in these circumstances.
| 2010-11 | |
| Non-Contributory
Benefit | £m |
| Attendance
Allowance | 3 |
| Carers
Allowance | 0 |
| Disability
Living Allowance | 11 |
| Industrial
Injuries Disablement
Benefit | 12 |
| Severe
Disablement
Allowance | 2 |
| Category
D Pension | 1 |
| Winter
Fuel
Payments | 16 |
Notes
1) Figures are in nominal terms
2) Figures have been rounded to nearest £m
3) Figures may include a very small amount of expenditure where the claimant's residence is not known.
EU rules require us to pay certain non-contributory benefits to people who are resident in the EEA or Switzerland. Those rules are contained in the Social Security Co-ordination Regulations (EC Regulations 883/2004 and 987/2009). They mean that in some circumstances, benefits may be payable to persons residing in other member states, for example, to cross-border workers who are employed or self-employed in the UK and to persons resident in another member state who are in receipt of a UK contributory benefit such as UK state pension or contributions-based ESA.
The relevant entitlement conditions for each benefit are:
Disability living allowance (care component only), attendance allowance or carer's allowance are payable to people who live in another EEA member state or Switzerland. The conditions under which they can receive or continue to receive the benefit in these circumstances are that the UK must be the responsible state for payment under EU law, for example the person is a UK worker or pensioner, and that they must be able to demonstrate a genuine and specific link to the UK's social security system. Members of Her Majesty’s forces serving abroad are paid disability living allowance and carer’s allowance as they are deemed to meet the residence and presence conditions for these benefits.
The entitlement conditions for winter fuel payments are that a person must be resident within the EEA or Switzerland, have reached the age at which women can claim state pension and have a genuine and sufficient link to the UK’s social security system.
Industrial injuries disablement benefit, industrial death benefit, and retirement allowance can continue to be paid without restriction outside the UK provided the person still satisfies the conditions of entitlement. Reduced earnings allowance (and the increases to disablement benefit: CAA and unemployability supplement) can continue in payment under domestic legislation where the absence is only temporary, although these may still be payable if a person travels to an EEA country and comes within the provisions of EU legislation.
Also, a person living abroad can become eligible for industrial injuries disablement benefit if they have been injured as a result of an industrial accident, or contracted one of the prescribed industrial diseases, arising from working as an employed earner while they were in GB.
Severe disablement allowance can continue to be paid to people who live in another EEA member state or Switzerland under the provisions of the EU Co- ordination Regulations.
Category D retirement pension is a non-contributory pension payable to people who are aged 80 and over and not entitled to a category A or B state pension at an equivalent or higher rate. Once entitlement is established category D pensions are payable worldwide on the same terms and conditions as other categories of state pension.
In order to qualify for a category D pension the individual must:
have been resident in GB for a period of at least 10 years in any continuous period of 20 years which includes the day before their 80th birthday or any later date; and
be ordinarily resident in GB on the day they reached age 80 or the date of claim for the pension if later.
Under the terms of the EU social security co-ordination rules a person does not have to be ordinarily resident in GB if they are resident in the EEA and Switzerland.
Child benefit and the child tax credit are payable to persons residing in the EEA or Switzerland, where the UK is the responsible state for payment under EU law. This would include payment to UK workers and pensioners.
Child benefit and the child tax credit are also payable to UK Crown servants posted overseas (eg Armed Forces personnel, members of the Diplomatic Service) or their accompanying spouse or partner, provided that just before the posting the Crown servant was either ordinarily resident in the UK or was present in the UK immediately prior to the posting and in connection with that posting.
Child benefit is covered by some of the UK’s bilateral social security agreements, namely Barbados, Canada, Israel, Jersey and Guernsey, Mauritius, New Zealand and the former Yugoslavia. Under some of these bilateral agreements (eg with Barbados and the former Yugoslavia), UK child benefit may be payable if the person responsible for the child (or their spouse) is still paying UK national insurance contributions.
We do not have estimates of the total annual cost of paying child benefit and/or the child tax credit in the circumstances outlined above.
Tax benefit reference manual: 2009-2010 edition. 333 p.
Tax benefit reference manual: 2009-2010 edition. 333 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2008-09 edition. 313 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2008-09 edition. 313 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2007-08 edition. 299 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2007-08 edition. 299 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2006-07 edition. 299 p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2006-07 edition. 299 p.
Document containing customer satisfaction statistics and mystery shopper reports for Jobcentre Plus, The Pension Service, and Disability and Carers Service (DCS). I. The Disability and Carers Service customer service survey 2003/2004. Final report May 2004. 59 p. II. DCS measurement of customer service report, 01 April 2002 to 31 March 2003. 9 p. III. DCS measurement of customer service report for 2003 - 2004. 9 p. IV. DCS measurement of customer service report for 2004/2005. 8 p. V. Jobcentre Plus Mystery Shopping national report, 2002/2003. 5 p. VI. Jobcentre Plus Mystery Shopping national report, 2003/2004. 3 p. VII. Jobcentre Plus Mystery Shopping national report, 2004/2005. 3 p. VIII. The Pension Service, 2004/05, and 2005/06. 2 p.
Document containing customer satisfaction statistics and mystery shopper reports for Jobcentre Plus, The Pension Service, and Disability and Carers Service (DCS). I. The Disability and Carers Service customer service survey 2003/2004. Final report May 2004. 59 p. II. DCS measurement of customer service report, 01 April 2002 to 31 March...
Tax benefit reference manual 2005-06 edition. 298p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2005-06 edition. 298p.
Tax benefit reference manual 2004-05 edition. 295 p. Treasury. 2004.
Tax benefit reference manual 2004-05 edition. 295 p. Treasury. 2004.
Tax benefit reference manual 2003-2004 edition. 263 p. Treasury. 2003.
Tax benefit reference manual 2003-2004 edition. 263 p. Treasury. 2003.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the payment of disability living allowance to UK citizens who emigrate (a) within the EU and (b) outside the EU. - Inc ref to EEC Regulation 1408/71.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his policy is on the payment of disability living allowance to UK citizens who emigrate (a) within the EU and (b) outside the EU. - Inc ref to EEC Regulation 1408/71.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the total expenditure on pensioner support in each year since 1996-97, with an estimate for 2000-01 and 2001-02 on the basis of proposals in the Pre-Budget Report, with a breakdown in (a) cash and (b) annual percentage...
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, if he will list the total expenditure on pensioner support in each year since 1996-97, with an estimate for 2000-01 and 2001-02 on the basis of proposals in the Pre-Budget Report, with a breakdown in (a) cash and (b) annual percentage...
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid from the National Insurance Fund to pay for non-contributory benefits in the last financial year. - Ref to Cm 4587. (Holding answer 27 June 2000).
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was paid from the National Insurance Fund to pay for non-contributory benefits in the last financial year. - Ref to Cm 4587. (Holding answer 27 June 2000).
Draft SI on social security benefits up-rating. Lords debate on motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Draft SI on social security benefits up-rating. Lords debate on motion to approve. Agreed to on question.
Draft SI on social security benefits up-rating. (Affirmative instrument). Approved by Parliament. Made 22 February 2000 (SI 2000/440). Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)
Draft SI on social security benefits up-rating. (Affirmative instrument). Approved by Parliament. Made 22 February 2000 (SI 2000/440). Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proportion and what amount of the total welfare benefit bill for the past five years has been paid as (a) contributory and (b) non-contributory benefit. - Inc tables.
To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what proportion and what amount of the total welfare benefit bill for the past five years has been paid as (a) contributory and (b) non-contributory benefit. - Inc tables.
Social security changes for asylum seekers and other persons from abroad. House of Commons Library Research Paper 96/9. (Updates benefit section of Research Paper 95/124).
Social security changes for asylum seekers and other persons from abroad. House of Commons Library Research Paper 96/9. (Updates benefit section of Research Paper 95/124).
Which of the British welfare benefits are classed as (a) social security and (b) social assistance benefits for EEA purposes.
Which of the British welfare benefits are classed as (a) social security and (b) social assistance benefits for EEA purposes.
If he will consider introducing non-means tested benefits for lone parents who are not covered by insurance contributions. - Inc figure.
If he will consider introducing non-means tested benefits for lone parents who are not covered by insurance contributions. - Inc figure.