Social Security Benefits: Foreign Nationals
Commons · Question 71040 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 8 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with benefit eligibility rules by foreign nationals.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 8 Sep 2025
The Department applies strict compliance and benefit eligibility checks to all claimants regardless of their nationality. In addition to verifying a claimant’s identity, DWP checks that claimants are habitually resident here before they can receive public...