The Benefits for Migrants Handbook gives practical, comprehensive guidance on social security entitlement for anyone who has come to or is leaving the UK. It is an essential reference guide for advisers whose clients include European Economic Area nationals, asylum seekers and refugees, families with members of different immigration status, migrants from outside the European Economic Area, or British residents going abroad.

This Handbook provides:

• a guide to all social security benefits and tax credits and how the benefit and immigration rules affect entitlement
• information on the financial and other support available to asylum seekers
• clear and easy-to-use guidance on immigration law and how to determine immigration status
• an outline of European Union law and how it affects social security in the UK
• practical examples and arguments that advisers can use.

This Handbook also includes practical information on dealing with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Home Office. It is fully indexed and cross-referenced to UK and European social security and immigration legislation, as well as caselaw.

The online version of this Handbook is updated throughout the year. It is available as part of CPAG’s Benefits for Migrants Online.