For your info: from 3 April 2000 persons claiming asylum will be excluded from claiming social security benefits.
I'm wondering if this person can claim her benefits in Thailand if she decides to live in TH?Asylum seekers and other types of persons from abroad could claim IS prior to 3 April 2000 under certain circumstances. Their personal allowance was reduced by 10%. Changes to the benefit rules were introduced in February 1996. Only those asylum seekers who had made an application for asylum when they first arrived in the UK, or whose countries had been declared an upheaval country were able to claim IS or Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance. Entitlement ceased in the event of an initial negative decision from the Home Office on the asylum seeker’s asylum
application, and benefit was no longer payable during the asylum appeal process.
Asylum seekers in receipt of benefit when the changes were introduced were covered by transitional protection up until the next negative Home Office decision on their application. The Home Office have been funding IS payments to asylum seekers since April 1999, however from 3 April 2000 persons claiming asylum will be excluded from claiming social security benefits. Instead they will receive support depending on their circumstances, either from the National Asylum Support Service (NASS) that has been set up by the Home Office to manage such claims, or Local Authorities. Asylum seekers who claimed IS prior to 3 April 2000 will be entitled to IS at the ‘urgent cases’ payment rate. Transitional protection for these cases will continue until there is a relative change of circumstances.
Is it possible to claim social welfare from the UK in Thailand? Claiming Dutch Social benefits abroad is only possible for disable individuals.
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