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Benefits for Migrants Handbook (15th edition)
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Chapter 17: International agreements
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Benefits for Migrants Handbook (15th edition)
Part 6: European co-ordination rules and international agreements
Chapter 17: International agreements
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Chapter 17: International agreements
1. Reciprocal agreements
Agreements with non-European Economic Area countries
Agreements with Ireland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar
Agreements with Northern Ireland
Agreements with Gibraltar
Agreements with European Economic Area states
Agreement with Switzerland
People covered by the agreements
Benefits covered by the agreements
Unemployment benefits
Sickness and invalidity benefits
Maternity benefits
Benefits for industrial injuries
Retirement pensions and bereavement benefits
Family benefits
Dependants’ benefits
2. Council of Europe conventions and agreements
Effect on benefit entitlements
3. European association agreements and their replacements
Agreements with equal treatment provisions
Who is covered
Other agreements
Albania
Israel
The rules in this chapter may help you to obtain benefits in the UK, or to get your benefit paid in another country. However, if you are moving to or from or within the European Economic Area (EEA), one or more of the sets of European Union co-ordination rules may apply to you instead. These co-ordination rules are covered in
Chapter 16
and are cross-referred to in this chapter where relevant.
In this
Handbook
all references to the EEA are to be read as including Switzerland. The EEA states are listed on
here
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Benefits for Migrants Handbook (15th edition).
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CPAG. "Chapter 17: International agreements." In
Benefits for Migrants Handbook (15th edition).
, 2024. Accessed March 12, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-258810CITANCHOR.
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