When/if can they claim?

Cranny44

Hi

I have a situation as follows and cant seem to get an answer:

Daughter lives in Uk and married with children to Uk national.

her mum and dad unable to live alone any longer moved from lithuania to UK 5 years ago, daughter has supported them for last 5 years as they have very small state pensions paid into a polish bank.

Both would easily meet the criteria for AA and have nowhere near the PCGC income for a couple. They have a small blue card to say they can live in uk this was applied for 6 moths after moving into the country and not sent to them until a further year after that ( so they had already been here 18 months at this point and card is dated when issued 18 months later).

The daughter says their passports are stamped no recourse to public funds and hence she has supported them but as they have been habitually resident for the last 5 years is there any point they become able to claim AA and Pension credit?

Thanks for any help or if anyone has a DMG or similar as i would like to forward the info onto the family in question.

lighting_up_the_chalice

They fall under the banner of "A8 Nationals". There were restrictions on their access to public funds when they first came to the UK, but those restrictions were removed last year, so they can work and claim benefits in the same way as any other european national in this country.

Cranny44

Thanks for the reply do you know where i can find this info? I wish to send it to the daughter so she can see for herself she could claim for them.

lighting_up_the_chalice

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/m-13-11.pdf

Cranny44

Thanks i will forward this on and get them to claim PC and AA