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Surge in EU citizens unfairly refused access to universal credit

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Post by Guest Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:45 am

‘Hostile environment’ of benefits system leads EU nationals to destitution.

“What is happening to our EU citizen clients is little short of scandalous,” said Michael Bates of the Central England Law Centre in Birmingham. “To see people who have lived and worked here for so long being told they don’t qualify for benefit when they so obviously do is a disgrace”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/05/surge-in-eu-citizens-unfairly-refused-access-to-universal-credit

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Post by Brutus Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:16 am



I have friends that found themselves in this situation.
I cannot but be reminded of the words for which the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller is sadly remembered...



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