Key facts
•The co-ordination rules are most relevant when you have moved to the UK from a European Economic Area (EEA) country or vice versa.
•If you are a British citizen, you are treated as an EEA national, and the UK is treated as an EEA member state, for the purposes of the European Union (EU) co-ordination rules until the end of the ‘transition period’ (see below).
•If you are an EEA national (or British citizen), or the family member of an EEA national (or British citizen), and your circumstances involve more than one EEA state (or the UK and an EEA state), your benefit entitlements may be affected by the EU co-ordination rules.
Brexit
Further to the UK leaving
the EU, the rules described in this chapter will continue until the end of the transition period which, at the time of writing, was due to end on 31 December 2020. For more information, including the rules after this period, see
here.