Machina said:
It's not illegal to change social security legislation, but it is illegal to do so in any way that would potentially restrict access to them for non-British EU citizens. |
But you are not restrictioning access to non-UK citizens only, you are restricting for everyone, UK citizen or not. Wait... Spain has something like this already in place, how are they getting away with it? In order to claim benefits in Spain (not sure which) you have to pay in from employment before hand. Not sure why UK are special.
This is ignoring the fact that as a person not entitled to any benefits (other than maybe 25% off my council tax because I live alone, which is still not enough in my view), I think we should restrict most UK, EU and Rest of World people from claiming any benefits at all.
Hmm, pie.
