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These Regulations amend the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1967), the Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/207), the State Pension Credit Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1792), the Housing Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/213), the Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/214), the Council Tax Benefit Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/215), the Council Tax Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/216) and the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/794) (“the income-related benefit regulations”).
The income-related benefit regulations provide that a claimant is ineligible for benefit where he or she is a “person from abroad” or, in the case of state pension credit, a “person not in Great Britain”. A person is a person from abroad or a person not in Great Britain if he or she is not habitually resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or the Republic of Ireland. No person shall be treated as habitually resident without a relevant right to reside in the place where he or she is habitually resident. The income-related benefit regulations provide that where a person’s right of residence is of a specified type, he or she is not to be treated as habitually resident for the purposes of those benefits. These Regulations insert a right of residence into the lists of rights specified, namely the right of a person who requires that right in order that a British citizen is not deprived of the genuine enjoyment of the substance of the rights attaching to the status of European Union citizen. That right is recognised in the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the case of C-34/09 Gerardo Ruiz Zambrano v Office national de l’emploi(ONEm) as arising from Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and in regulation 15A(1) of the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1003) where the claimant satisfies the criteria in regulation 15A(4A) of those Regulations.
A full impact assessment has not been produced in relation to these Regulations as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.
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