This case raises issues concerning the right of European Union citizens, who have worked as self-employed workers but have ceased to be in work, to be paid jobseeker’s allowances and crisis payments. The central issue turns on whether there is a practical distinction, for the purposes of obtaining certain benefits, between a worker who, prior to becoming unemployed, has been employed and a worker who has been self-employed.
Citations:
[2010] EWHC 213 (Admin), [2010] 3 CMLR 11
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Benefits, European
Updated: 14 August 2022; Ref: scu.402537