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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
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Chapter 58: Going abroad
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Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26
Part 9: Immigration and residence rules for benefits
Chapter 58: Going abroad
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Chapter 58: Going abroad
Key facts
1. Overview of the rules on getting paid abroad
Which rules apply
UK law
Ordinary residence
Presence and absence
Temporary absence
2. Rules for specific benefits
Universal credit and other means-tested benefits
Universal credit
Income-related employment and support allowance
Housing benefit
Pension credit
Bereavement benefits
European Union co-ordination rules
Child benefit, Scottish child payment and guardian's allowance
Child benefit
Scottish child payment
Guardian’s allowance
European Union co-ordination rules
Disability and carers' benefits
European Union co-ordination rules
Contributory employment and support allowance
European Union co-ordination rules
Industrial injuries benefits
European Union co-ordination rules
New-style jobseeker’s allowance
European Union co-ordination rules
Maternity allowance, incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance
European Union co-ordination rules
Retirement pension
European Union co-ordination rules
Reciprocal agreements
Statutory payments
European Union co-ordination rules
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CPAG. "Chapter 58: Going abroad." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 12, 2026.
CPAG,
https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265965CITANCHOR.
CPAG. "Chapter 58: Going abroad." In
Welfare Benefits Handbook 2025/26.
, 2025. Accessed March 12, 2026. https://askcpag.org.uk/?id=-265965CITANCHOR.
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