UK 'most lucrative' for migrants

Press Association
Updated
Immigration stamp on a passport page. Extreme close-up with selective focus. Passport page is gradually blurred with distance.
Immigration stamp on a passport page. Extreme close-up with selective focus. Passport page is gradually blurred with distance.

Britain remains the most lucrative destination in the European Union for Romanians and Bulgarians with a "generous" welfare system providing a major incentive for migrants despite new curbs being introduced, it has been claimed.

David Cameron has rushed through a plan to introduce a three-month wait before EU migrants can claim out-of-work benefits so it coincides with the end of temporary controls tomorrow that had blocked citizens from the two countries moving to the UK.

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