Reform vows to BAN foreign nationals from claiming benefits in £50bn welfare shake-up

FOREIGN nationals will be stopped from claiming benefits if Reform UK come to power. Nigel Farage’s party is planning a major shake-up of the “plain immoral” welfare system in a bid to save £50billion a year. But it would mean renegotiating the Brexit deal with Brussels as the ban would also include EU citizens with...

The move would require renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal and could risk stripping British expats living in the EU of similar rights.

Nigel Farage's Reform UK has been savaged over 'cowardly' welfare plans to strip foreign nationals of their rights and breach the terms of the UK's Brexit deal with the European Union

Reform reveals plan to ban all foreign nationals from most claiming benefits  ITVX

Robert Jenrick takes aim at disabled people and foreign nationals after saying UK guilty of ‘suicidal empathy’ Reform UK has been accused of excluding the most vulnerable from society and punishing non-Britons living in the UK as it prepared to outline £50bn of cuts to benefits for disabled people and foreign nationals

Nigel Farage’s party says there would be only a small number of exceptions, including the War Widows Pension and Armed Forces compensation

Under the terms of Brexit the EU could launch economic retaliation over the plan, Farage has been warned

Robert Jenrick: Reform UK would ban foreigners from claiming benefits  The Times

Robert Jenrick, the party's treasury spokesperson, said the plans would save more than £50 billion a year from the welfare bill

David Hughes, Press Association Political Editor Foreign nationals would be banned from claiming almost all kinds of benefits in the UK under a Reform UK government, with the party describing the current situation as “immoral”. Reform said the measure would form part of a wider plan to save more than £50 billion a year

Universal Credit and PIP to be cut for millions in Reform's DWP overhaul - what you need to know  GB News

Craig Munro | Senior Politics Reporter Published August 16, 2026 2:52pm Updated August 16, 2026 2:52pm Reform UK said 2.89 million people would have their benefits removed or modified (Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire) Reform would get rid of the Pip disability welfare system if it wins power, as part of a plan to cut

Robert Jenrick says current benefits system is ‘a strange perversion of compassion’

Reform UK has pledged the biggest benefits overhaul “in a generation,” unveiling plans to cut £50bn per year from the welfare bill.  Robert Jenrick, the party’s treasury spokesman, said the proposals would see nearly 3m people have their disability and sickness payments withdrawn or modified. Jenrick claimed the UK’s e

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