Benefits for Migrants Handbook

(previously Migration and Social Security Handbook)

Please note: the 6th edition is due in winter 2012. To order in advance, please call us on 020 7837 7979 or download the order form.

The essential reference guide for advisers whose clients include:

• European Union nationals;
• Asylum seekers and refugees;
• Families with members of different immigration status;
• Migrants from outside the European Union;
• British residents going abroad.

The Benefits for Migrants Handbook gives practical, comprehensive guidance on social security entitlement for anyone who has come to or is leaving the UK.

This Handbook provides:

• a guide to all social security benefits and tax credits and how the benefit and immigration rules affect entitlement
• information on the financial and other support available to asylum seekers
• clear and easy-to-use guidance on immigration law and how to determine immigration status
• an outline of European Union law and how it affects social security in the UK
• practical examples and arguments that advisers can use.

The information in this latest edition has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest immigration rules and all significant social security changes affecting people from abroad, including new information on residence tests. The Handbook has been expanded to include more details on the rights of European Economic Area nationals, particularly on their right to reside in the UK, and the effects of the new European Regulation on the co-ordination of social security systems.

This Handbook also includes practical information on dealing with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Home Office. It is fully indexed and cross-referenced to UK and European social security and immigration legislation, as well as caselaw.

January 2011 (delayed from 2009) 978 1 906076 34 4 £23.00

'Of invaluable use for immigration and welfare benefit advisers… as well as legal practitioners in need of a quick, no-nonsense reference guide to solve practical problems.' IMMIGRATION, ASYLUM & NATIONALITY LAW

Downloads

Download contents and sample chapter 7 of the Benefits for Migrants Handbook (175 KB PDF)

Related training

CPAG courses: People from Abroad
CPAG courses in Scotland