Petition · past parliament

to make immigrants work and pay tax for 4 years before they can claim benefits.

Closed 451 signatures

What the petition asks

this is one of the big reasons why people chose to voted out of the EU, we have now chosen to leave the EU and we should no longer be giving immigrants housing benefits, working tax credits or job seekers allowance from a system that they have never paid into. This should be stoped immediately.
we have a great benefits system that is here to help British citizens, the system was not put in place to pay people money for doing nothing, if an immigrant wants to claim any benefits they should have been living, working and paying tax into the system for 4 years minimum before they can claim any benifits.

Timeline

14 Jul 2016 Petition opened for signatures
14 Jan 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 451
Status Closed
Opened 14 Jul 2016
Closed 14 Jan 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.