Post-Brexit Britain Offering £2K Resettlement Payments to EU Migrants
27 Jan 2021
The British government is offering cash payments of up to £2,000 to European Union citizens to leave the UK and resettle on the continent.
Under the government’s EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS), all EU migrants who arrived during the UK’s membership of the bloc, or during the transition period, are eligible to apply for settled status in the UK. Despite the UK leaving the EU’s institutions on December 31st, 2020, the EUSS’s deadline for registration is June 30th, 2021.
However, as of January 1st, EU citizens had quietly been added to a government migrant voluntary returns programme, where EU nationals are offered financial support, including free flights, to assist them in moving back to their country of origin,
23 Jan 2021
Britain’s chancellor wants to “wean us off the magic money tree” after nearly a year of unprecedented spending in response to the coronavirus lockdown, a policy which saw government borrowing rise by a near-record £34 billion in December alone.
Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the United Kingdom, has opened the taps of public spending since the government started shutting down the economy last year. The Conservative party MP is expected to want to start paying for it in the forthcoming March budget statement with new taxes.
Government borrowing from April to December the financial year so far, and broadly the time in which the government has been borrowing for coronavirus-related reasons rose by £271 billion, pushed by December’s borrowing of £34 billion. The