Please show me where I said you could not comment? I said you seem overly concerned about the UK when you no longer live here and probably will not return. You are, of course entitled to your opinions, as is everyone else on here, but the way you constantly speak down to those that voted Brexit is getting tiresome, but I must say, at times, your views are laughable so please keep it up.

I have actually lived and worked in Afghanistan for 2 months, prior to the 2001 invasion. It was obviously nothing like they are experiencing now.

It doesn't actually have anything to do with the benefit system itself. I can understand why a Spanish national living in the UK would have been treated like that pre-Brexit. Whilst we were EU members, I suspect we were bound to offer equivalent treatment to that they would get in their home country.

Not though post-Brexit, but I also suspect that equivalence is the reason. I think British nationals living in the EU have been promised they would receive the same treatment as home nationals, and in the Brexit treaty we agreed to do the same under the EUSS.

Thus, EU family members are being treated better, when settlement is being considered, than the family members of British citizens. New rules apply to those from the EU, but the old rules still apply to us.

The effect is that EU family members can now switch status, whilst British ones cannot. For a student nurse this means that not only can they not be granted a maintenance loan, they also cannot get the £5,000 per year training grant awarded in 2019, as a maintenance loan is the eligibility criteria. The EU family member now gets both.

It's quite a scandal.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (26 Aug 2021 4.30pm)

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Still recovering from naming himself after The Trumpster.

Not really the point. The D o E have said that the terms of the EUSS ensure that EU nationals being granted settled status will be treated the same as British citizens. Which is reasonable. What it didn't say is that they would be treated better, so it seems obvious that if the terms of the treaty result in better treatment for EU citizens, and their family members, then adjustments also need to be made to the way British nationals are treated.

They aren't and no-one seems aware, or remotely concerned, when it's pointed out to them.

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Well, from my experience over the last 30 years and now living in my 8th EU country is that the vast majority of Brits don't integrate at all into the local communities unlike the majority of EU citizens in the UK. That's mostly down to language as most Brits don't speak or bother to learn the language of their hist country, further isolating them from everything that that country has to offer. Most EU citizens speak English, most very good English, especially those that moved to the UK which has helped them integrate, start businesses, get good employment etc. Another aspect is that the number of Brits within the EU is tiny compared to the number of EU citizens that are in the UK, of course comparing a group of 27 countries to 1. Something like 3.5 million EU citizens in a country of 69 million instead of 1.5 million Brits in a region that contains 450 million.

Pro China, EU & Palestine

The law and expectations of there behaviour is equal.
Suddenly its about money then and trying to stir it up.
Very European!