David Cameron is said to be close to securing a deal for the UK to freeze in-work benefits to people from other parts of the EU
The UK has been pursuing a deal that would allow it to deny in-work benefits to people from other parts of the EU for up to four years.
The UK could in effect put an "emergency brake" on payments. An emergency brake applied to benefit eligibility. But it is not an emergency brake on migrant numbers.
However, the UK would have to show its welfare system was overwhelmed and it would need approval from a majority of EU states. Other EU countries could also use the brake.
David Cameron is due in Brussels later for talks on his EU renegotiation aims.
The restriction on in-work benefits for EU migrants is one of the prime minister's key demands for reform in his renegotiations of the UK's EU membership. Cameron will have to sell his idea to his Euro-sceptic members of his party. That might not be so easy?
Priime Minister David Cameron
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