Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 57678

Social Security Benefit: Migrants

Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025

Question

Helen Whately

ConservativeFaversham and Mid Kent

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people had their claim rejected for (a) Universal Credit, (b) the State Pension and (c) other public funds due to having a no recourse to public funds condition in each year since 2020.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms
Persons subject to immigration control have no recourse to public funds and so cannot access taxpayer-funded benefits such as Universal Credit. Nationals of countries other than the UK and Ireland may have no recourse to public funds because either their ...

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