Cameron to tighten rules on benefits
Sunday 06 January 2013
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EmailBenefits-obsessed Prime Minister David Cameron vowed today to make it harder for European Union migrants to come to Britain to claim them.
The PM stoked fears that thousands of migrants from Romania and Bulgaria could arrive in Britain next year to claim benefits once transitional arrangements set up when the two countries joined the EU in 2007 come to an end.
Mr Cameron said ministers would now look at making it harder for migrants from the EU to come to Britain and claim benefits or access free health care on the NHS.
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