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EU migrants would wait two years for jobless benefits, Labour says | EU migrants would wait two years for jobless benefits, Labour says |
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Jobless migrants from the EU would have to wait two years before they can claim out of work benefits, under new plans proposed by the Labour Party. | Jobless migrants from the EU would have to wait two years before they can claim out of work benefits, under new plans proposed by the Labour Party. |
They currently have to wait for three months to apply for income-based Jobseeker's Allowance. | They currently have to wait for three months to apply for income-based Jobseeker's Allowance. |
Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves also wants to end child benefit being sent abroad and to curb in-work benefits paid to EU migrants. | Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Rachel Reeves also wants to end child benefit being sent abroad and to curb in-work benefits paid to EU migrants. |
Prime Minister David Cameron promised "clear plans" to limit EU migration. | |
Labour said Ms Reeves had spoken to her counterparts from Europe on the issue. | Labour said Ms Reeves had spoken to her counterparts from Europe on the issue. |
Earlier, the party promised an extra 1,000 UK border guards if it wins the general election. | Earlier, the party promised an extra 1,000 UK border guards if it wins the general election. |
'Absurdity' | |
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the staff would be funded by a £10 fee for visitors from the United States and 55 other countries. | Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the staff would be funded by a £10 fee for visitors from the United States and 55 other countries. |
"It isn't racist to be worried about immigration or to call for immigration reform," she said. | "It isn't racist to be worried about immigration or to call for immigration reform," she said. |
In an article for Mail Online, Ms Reeves said other countries, like Germany, had already gone further than the UK on the issue of qualifying periods for EU migrants. | In an article for Mail Online, Ms Reeves said other countries, like Germany, had already gone further than the UK on the issue of qualifying periods for EU migrants. |
"So we believe that it is right to extend the period that EU jobseekers need to live and support themselves in the UK before claiming out-of-work benefits from three months to two years," she said. | "So we believe that it is right to extend the period that EU jobseekers need to live and support themselves in the UK before claiming out-of-work benefits from three months to two years," she said. |
She also promised to end the "absurdity" of child benefit and tax credits being sent abroad and said she was "determined" to look at possible changes to in-work benefits. | |
'Common sense' | |
Mr Cameron wants to reduce immigration from other EU nations ahead of the referendum he has promised on Britain's EU membership by 2017. | |
On a visit to Rochester ahead of Thursday's by-election he said: "People want to see carefully thought-through plans that can work - we've delivered a cut in net migration from outside the EU - we closed down bogus colleges - now people want to see clear plans on how we cut down on immigration from inside EU and that's exactly what ... I'll deliver." | |
He recently welcomed a ruling backing Germany's attempts to restrict unemployed migrants' rights to welfare as "common sense" and said freedom of movement between countries should not be "an unqualified right". |