EU commissioner proposes block on claims for first six months,far cry from prime minister’s hopes for four-year exclusionDavid Cameron’s hopes of restricting EU migrants’ access to welfare could be realised, but only until someone has been resident for six months, or as fragment of a package of reforms already being drawn up inside the European commission.
The proposal falls far short of the four-year exclusion sought by Cameron,but may represent his best hope of a Commission-endorsed reform designed to address the whole issue of free movement, including access to welfare for those defined as in work, and seeking work,or economically inactive.
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Source: theguardian.com