Social Security Benefits: Migrants
Commons · Question 93205 · Tabled 20 Nov 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 27 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Rupert Lowe
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms are in place to ensure that individuals whose immigration status no longer entitles them to public funds are automatically removed from benefit systems; and how many such removals have t
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 27 Nov 2025
Universal Credit systems carry out daily automatic checks against Home Office data to identify any changes in immigration status, and subsequently, DWP caseworkers stop claims where the individual no longer has an immigration status that permits recourse ...