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Review replacing JSA & ESA with Unemployment Insurance for overseas citizens

Submitted by Sally Ann Brown on Thursday 20th March 2025

Published on Thursday 1st May 2025

Current status: Closed

Closed: Saturday 1st November 2025

Signatures: 11

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Benefits ~ Citizens ~ concerns ~ Extreme ~ IMPACT ~ insurance ~ Limited ~ Poverty ~ Replace ~ Reviewed ~ Throwing ~ UK citizens ~ Unemployment ~ Universal Credit ~ Universities

Petition Action

Review replacing JSA & ESA with Unemployment Insurance for overseas citizens

Petition Details

We want the Government to review how the new time limited benefit will impact chronically ill people living overseas with no prospect of working. We are concerned about how the proposed new 'Unemployment Insurance' is time limited and can expire.

Additional Information

UK citizens living abroad are not able to claim Universal Credit even if they otherwise meet the requirements. So if this other vital support is ended, they stand to lose a significant amount of income. We think this could throw them into extreme poverty.


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