UK to bar migrants from claiming benefits until they become citizens under immigration shake-up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The UK government will prevent migrants from accessing welfare benefits until they obtain British citizenship under sweeping changes to immigration rules.
56% : Low-paid workers, including hundreds of thousands who arrived on health and social care visas since 2022, would face a baseline wait of 15 years for settlement, rising to 25 years if they have claimed benefits for more than 12 months.
55% : The Telegraph reports that the new rules will apply retrospectively to many post-Brexit arrivals, including 1.6 million skilled frontline workers such as doctors, nurses and teachers.
41% : The reforms come as Labour attempts to shore up its poll numbers against Nigel Farage's Reform UK, which has proposed removing ILR from hundreds of thousands of non-EU citizens and forcing them to reapply under stricter criteria.

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