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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

Courts place UK’s post-Brexit scheme for EU citizens at risk, experts warn

An EU flag flies outside the UK parliament in London
Legal experts are calling on the Home Office to officially recognise the scope of the EU settlement scheme. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The UK government scheme allowing EU citizens to remain post-Brexit is in danger of being upended, legal experts have warned, after a series of conflicting court rulings over social welfare payments to French and Slovenian citizens and the relative of a Spanish woman living in Britain.

In May, one county court judge found against Islington council, which had rescinded a Slovenian software engineer’s right to emergency housing after he lost work during the pandemic.

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