Forum Home → Discussion → Other benefit issues → Thread
BBC reports government concern over extension of EEA benefit rights
attached link to today’s bbc story -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11822338
reports on parliamentary european scrutiny committee report on ‘Proposed Council Decision on the position to be taken by the EU in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex VI (Social Security) and Protocol 37 to the EEA Agreement’ -
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmeuleg/428-vii/428vii04.htm
see also report on ‘Draft Council Decision on the position to be adopted by the EU in the Joint Committee established by the Agreement between the EU and Switzerland on the free movement of persons as regards the replacement of Annex II on the co-ordination of social security schemes’ -
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmeuleg/428-vii/428vii11.htm
lots of people rushing to the uk from norway to enjoy a worse standard of living