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>> FIdiots.
It's already well under way.
EU workers' access to Universal Credit is tightly restricted. They cannot get it as job seekers and if the DWP finds they are a job seeker (rather than, say, with reserved rights as a 'resting' worker) they're cut off from rest of hierarchy such claiming derivative rights as a carer and various other options*.
Even if they've been here five years with a provable work history for entirety of that time, and thus have a permanent right to reside, they get the heave ho. If they can get their contribution/PAYE history then a DWP review might open the door but even that's no guarantee. And you can prove your history once only to be asked to jump through same hoops again in six months.
Theoretically, if they've been present in UK for five years they can get settled status, but even then proving you've got it can be difficult as you don't get a card or passport stamp - just e-mailed confirmation that there's a digital record.
You can print that record but no guarantee DWP will recognise as 'you could have fasified it; everybody with a computer has a printing set that makes John Bull's product well redundant.
The hostile environment is still ballooning.
It's an ill wind though; sorting this stuff out keeps me in holiday money.....
And of course once the shutters come down on 31/10 then you'll need proof of status to get a job, rent a home or access healthcare.
Windrush Priti Patel style. And she's too thick to see the point (or the irony given her own heritage).....
*There are ways/means round this but they're complex and need legal advice.
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