[UK] “No recourse to public funds” rule endangers 1 million migrant workers

The work and pensions committee has said that the immigration rules that have left 1 million migrant workers in the UK at risk of destitution because they cannot claim universal credit should be suspended. The “no recourse to public funds rule” has left many foreign nationals facing a choice of stay at home in poverty or risking catching or spreading the virus at work. The exclusionary and opaque rules surrounding universal credit left many people, particularly self-employed workers, without financial support.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/22/scrap-no-recourse-to-public-funds-rules-left-1m-migrants-on-edge-of-destitution-say-mps
Writer: Patrick Butler
Publication: Guardian