United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 71040
Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
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29 August 2025
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8 September 2025 · Answer
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8 September 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with benefit eligibility rules by foreign nationals.
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29 August 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with benefit eligibility rules by foreign nationals.
Source: Commons
8 September 2025
Answer
The Department applies strict compliance and benefit eligibility checks to all claimants regardless of their nationality. In addition to verifying a claimant’s identity, DWP checks that claimants are habitually resident here before they can receive public...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-08-29/71040
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1827816
- uk · wq-1827816 · source updated 8 September 2025