On May 1st the rules regarding migrant workers are changing .It means basically that migrant workers can claim benefits immediately upon entering the country
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As many as 100,000 people from eastern Europe are expected to head for the UK after May 1, when they will be able to claim up to £250 a week in handouts.
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the monitoring body MigrationWatch UK, said last night: “This needs to be watched very carefully. Nobody knows what impact it will have.”
He is particularly concerned about what would happen once similar “transitional controls” on immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania are lifted in two years’ time, with fears that Roma people would race to take advantage.
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The UK’s Workers Registration Scheme, which obliged people from eastern Europe to register if they wanted to work in the UK for more than a month, is ending at the same time.
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I suspect that these are changes agreed by Labour before they left office ,and if so why the hell can't the new government do something about it ?