Hello:
After going round and round the Mulberry Bush (getting married in Vienna, moving to Malta to establish treaty rights [self-employment], and finally -- after one year ticking off requirements -- we (me - UK, husband - non-EU, son - non-EU) are finally in London.
Malta was simply a pit-stop on the march to getting the required EEA family permits. There is no possible way that living there getting paid 2 or 3 quid an hour would allow us to save enough to start life in the UK. So we have to rely on benefits to start.
Question:
With the new regulations which went into effect on Jan 1, what are our changes of being able to get Jobseekers and Housing benefits right away? Clearly we don't need this permanently, but we definitely need it as we try to establish ourselves here.
We arrived in the UK on Thursday, had first interview at the JobCenter on Friday, and have a "Habitual Residence Test" scheduled for Monday.
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