Alice Welsh from the University of York is requesting case study evidence on EEA national’s access to welfare benefits and permanent residence for a PhD research project in partnership with Citizens Advice Craven & Harrogate districts. She is undertaking this research as a PhD candidate at the University of York and a research and campaigns volunteer at Citizens Advice Craven & Harrogate districts.
The project:
Looking in particular on the Minimum Earnings Threshold (MET) and on the lookout for cases where EEA national clients who are working part time or casual hours have been denied benefits or permanent residence as they do not have a right of residence, they do not meet the minimum earnings threshold or their work is not “genuine and effective”. Also interested in the effects of those decisions.
The issue is of pressing, real importance, as those re-defined as not-workers will have a harder job claiming 5 years of continuous residence, which could make it difficult for them to keep residence rights after Brexit.
How to send evidence:
A brief information sheet on the cases being looked for and a letter from the CEO at Citizens Advice Craven & Harrogate Districts to confirm my training and agreement with accessing Petra files can be downloaded here.
If GMWRAG members could provide any evidence for this research that would be much appreciated. If this is possible Alice would be happy to meet to give further information on the project and discuss how case studies can be passed on or any cases can be sent to my email address: ajw550@york.ac.uk. All data will be anonymised and I will be collecting case studies until March 2018. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.
In the meantime GMWRAG has realised we have never created a “Research” category for this kind of post so, feeling rather dumb, we now have and Alice can have the honour of being the first to be thus categorised 🙂
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