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Insurance and contributions

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Jobseeker's Allowance

Heath care

But this is not always the case.  Paragraphs 2-11 will tell you when it will not apply to you.

Note - In some EC countries there is no compulsory state insurance scheme for self employed people and no scheme for any benefits.

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If you are taken on by an employer or by an agent in the UK so that you can go straight away to work for them in another EC country, you will usually carry on paying UK National Insurance contributions.  But you can only do this if the employer or agency runs the same sort of business in the UK and in the country that you are send to.

If you are taken on when you are abroad you will not have to pay UK National Insurance contributions.  You will be insured under the social security scheme of the country you work in.

The Contributions Agency may need to make enquiries about the business of your employer / agency in the UK.

There are special rules if an agency takes you on in the UK so that you can go and work for one of their clients in Germany or the Netherlands.  You may have to pay UK National Insurance contributions.  But this will only be for up to 12 months if you are in Germany or the Netherlands.  

If the employer you go to work for then hires you out again to another client you will not have to pay UK National contributions.  In this case you will be insured under the social security scheme of your country you are working in.  You can find out more if you write to the Contributions Agency.  The address will be published at the end..

Your UK employer must apply for and get form E 101.  This tells the social security authority in the other EC country, that you will carry on being insured under the UK scheme.

To do so your employer must get an application form the contributions Agency from the address at the end.  It should be completed and sent back to them.  As well as this, new employers and employers who have been in touch with the Contributions Agency before must get and fill in and send back a form giving  the company's details.  You can also get this form from the Contributions Agency at the address at the end.

If all the rules are met and your employer will have to pay Employed Earner's Contributions (Class 1) as if you were still in the UK.  You will not have to pay into the scheme of the other EC country.  But you should also look at paragraph 6.

If your job in another EC country happens to last longer than 12 months, although you did not expect it to, you can carry on being insured under the UK scheme for not more than another 12 months.  But only if the insurance authorities of the EC country you are working in, agree to this extra time.

Make sure your UK employer asks for this extra time.  They must ask before the end of the first 12 months you are working in the other EC country.  They need to apply on forms E 102.  They can get copies of the forms from the Contributions Agency at the end.

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You will have to pay the Self-employed Earner's Contributions (Class 2 and Class 4) as if you were still in the UK.  You will have to pay into the scheme of the other EC country.

You must apply for and get form E 101 from the Contributions Agency, address at the end.  If it can be issued it shows that you will carry on being insured under the UK scheme.

Apply for the form E 101 to the Contributions Agency, address at the end.  When you ask for this form you must tell us:

• your full name and address in the UK
• your maiden name (if you had one)
• your date of birth
• your nationality
• your National Insurance number
• your business name and address
• how long you have been in business
• how you are paying your Class 2 contributions
• the address or addresses you will be working at abroad
• the date when you start work in the other EC country
• how long your work in the other EC country is likely to last
• if you are working in the constructions industry
• what is your job
• the address of the local office where you are registered self-employed
• for each member of your family who is going with you
  -  their full name (including maiden name if they have one)
  -  their date of birth
• Child benefit number (if they have one)

You can find out if you can get form E 101 under the new rules by getting in touch with the Contributions Agency from the address at the end.

When you get in touch with the Contributions Agency we ask you to fill in a form.  This form will help the Contributions Agency to decide if you are normally self-employed.  If we decide that you are self-employed, we will send form E 101 to you, as long as you do not expect to be working for yourself in the other EC country for more than 12 months.  But only if the insurance authorities of the EC country you are working in, agree to this extra time.

Note - We cannot send you form E 101 until you have filled in the form to ask for it.

When you have been given form E 101, you will have to pay the Self-employed Earner's Contributions (Class 2 and Class 4) as if you were working in the UK.

Self-employed construction workers in Germany
If you go to Germany to work in the construction industry you must register at the local office of the Chamber of Handcrafts (Handwerkskammer).  Take your form E 101 with you.

To register with the Handwerkskammer you have to prove that you are property trained and qualified in your trade.  You will be asked to provide a certificate of Experience from the:

Certification Unit
British Chamber of Commerce
Westwood House
Westwood Business Park
Coventry
CV4 8HS

You should apply for this before you leave.  There will be a non-refundable charge of £80.

Note - If you do not register at the Handwerkskammer, you are not allowed to be self-employed in Germany.

Self-employed that unexpectedly lasts for more than 12 months.
If your job in another EC country happens to last longer than 12 months.  Although you did not expect it to, you can carry on being insured under the UK scheme for not more than another 12 months.  But only if the insurance authorities of the EC country you are working in, agree to this extra time.

You must ask to carry on being insured under the UK scheme before the end of the first 12 months of your work.  You will need to fill in forms E 102 which you can get from the Contributions Agency, address at the end.  You should also read paragraphs 8 - Special arrangements.

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But if this means you are not covered for a social security pension, then you will be liable to pay social security contributions to the insurance scheme of the other country in which you are self-employed.

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If you work in two or more EC countries, you are insured under the UK scheme.

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To find out more write to the Contributions Agency.  You should also read paragraph 2.

Note - The Contributions Agency needs to get the foreign social security authority to agree that you can remain UK insured.  This means it may take some time to decide.

These groups of people are treated in a special way:

• seafarers
• civil servants
• members of the staff of diplomatic or consular posts
• people who work for a member of the staff of a diplomatic or consular post
• members of the staff of the European Communities
• members of Her Majesty's Forces
• civilians who work for an organisation, like NAAFI, that serves HM Forces of for HM Forces in Germany

if you are in any of these groups and you are not sure, for example, what National Insurance contributions you should pay or what benefits you can get, write to the Contributions Agency.

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If you are sent to the UK.

You, or the person who acts in the UK for your employer, must apply for and get form E 101 from the insurance authorities of the other EC country.  Form E 101 tells us that you continue to be insured under the other country's social security scheme.  If you do not have form E 101 there may be a demand to pay UK contributions.

It may happen that your job in the UK lasts longer than 12 months, although you did not expect it to.  You can carry on being insured under the other EC country's scheme for not more than another 12 months.  But the Contributions Agency must agree to this extra time.

Before the end of the first 12 months your employer should get forms E 102 from the insurance authorities of the country where your contributions are being paid.  They can then use forms E 102 to ask for you to carry on being insured in the other EC country.  They should send forms to the Contributions Agency.

Your work in the UK may still not be finished when the second 12 months is over.  Or you may not be allowed to stay insured under the scheme of the other EC country after the end of the first 12 months.  If so you must start paying contributions to the UK scheme.

If you are not included in the rules in this section and you work for an employer in the UK, you will usually have to pay UK contributions as soon as you start work.  To do so you must have a UK National Insurance Number.

If you do not have a National Insurance number you must apply for one in person, as soon as possible, at the Contributions Agency office.  You can obtain the local Contributions Agency office address from your local telephone directory under Contributions Agency.  They can tell you more about paying contributions in the UK.

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You must have form E 101 to tell us that you are still insured under the other EC country's scheme.  You must apply for and get form E 101 from the insurance authorities of the country you usually work in.

If you do not have form E 101 you must be asked to pay UK insurance contributions.

It may happen that your work lasts longer than 12 months, although you did not expect it to.  You can carry on being insured under the other EC county's scheme for not more than another 12 months.  But the Contributions Agency must agree to this extra time.  Before the end of the first 12 months you should ask for forms E 102.  You can get them from the insurance authorities of the country where your contributions are being paid.  Use forms E 102 to ask if you can carry on being insured in the other EC country.  Send the forms to Contributions Agency.

Your work may still not be finished when the second 12 months is over.  Or you may not be allowed to stay insured under the scheme of the other EC country after the end of the first 12 months.  If so, you must start paying contributions to the UK scheme.

If you are not included in the rules in this section and you work in the UK, you will usually have to pay UK contributions as soon as you start work.  To do so you must have a National Insurance number.

If you do not have a National Insurance number you must apply for one in person, as soon as possible, at the local Contributions Agency office.  You can obtain the local Contributions Agency office address from your local telephone directory under Contributions Agency.  They can tell you more about paying contributions in the UK.

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Whether or not you are working in another EC country, you can usually decide if you want to pay into the UK National Insurance scheme.  These are called voluntary contributions because you do not have them if you do not want to.  If you do pay voluntary contributions, they may help you get a UK pension and some other UK benefits.  You need to decide if it would be in your interests to pay voluntary UK contributions.  To help you, you should note that:

• if you are send back to work in another EC country by your employer, and you are insured under that other country's scheme, you can get UK Incapacity Benefit, contributions - based Jobseekers Allowance or Maternity Allowance when you come back to the UK.  But:
  -  you must have kept your normal home in the UK, and
  -  you must not be able to get the other country's benefit
• for all the weeks that you are doing work for which you are paid while you are abroad, you can usually pay voluntary contributions at either:
  -  the Class 2 rate for self-employed people, or
  -  the Class 3 rate for people who are not working
• for any other weeks you can pay at the Class 3 rate only
• Class 2 contributions count for Retirement Pension, widow's benefit, Maternity Allowance and short-term Incapacity Benefit
• class 3 contributions count for Retirement Pension and widow's benefit
• you cannot use voluntary UK contributions  to help you get UK contributions-based Jobseeker's Allowance, nor do they give you cover for health care (see paragraph 36).

If you want to pay voluntary contributions to the UK National Insurance scheme while you are in another EC country, write to the Contributions Agency as soon as possible.

You must pay your voluntary contributions within certain time limits for them to count for benefit.

Note - you will not be able to pay voluntary contributions to the UK scheme if you are already paying voluntary contributions in another EC country.

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If you do not qualify for contribution-based JSA or it does not fully meet your needs you may qualify for income-based JSA.  Income-based JSA is normally only payable to jobseekers in the UK and is not covered by the rules in this section.

UK contribution-based JSA in another EC country
If you:

Uk contribution-based JSA is paid by employment services in the EC country in which is made in local currency at the rate of contribution-based JSA you were paid in the UK, and is authorised on form E 303.  This form is issued by the Benefits Agency.

If you can get UK contribution-based JSA in another EC country, you can get a letter from your jobcentre to help you in registering for work in that country.  Give it to the authorities who run the employment services in the other country.

If you can get UK contribution-based JSA in an other EC country and you are going to look for work in:

• Spain

You will also be given form E 303.

But you must tell the jobcentre in good time before you go that you need it.  If you do not, it will be sent to your address in the country you have moved to.  If you are going to look for work in any other EC country, then form E 303 will be sent to a liaison office in that country.

In each country in which you are looking for work you must:

Once you have been paid UK contribution-based JSA for a time spent in an other EC country, you cannot get it again for another length of time when you are seeking work abroad unless you have done more work and you have paid into the UK National Insurance scheme.

If you fall sick while you are looking for work in another EC country
You might fall sick while you are looking for work in an other EC country.  If you do, you must get UK short-term Incapacity Benefit (se paragraph 16), instead of UK contribution-based JSA.  But you will only get it as long as the length of time you can get UK contribution-based JSA has not run out.

Benefit for unemployment in another EC country
If you paid unemployment insurance while you were employed in another EC country this may help you get UK contribution-based JSA following your return to this country.  But you must have either:

If you have not paid Class 1 contributions in the UK since your return and you cannot be treated as habitually resident in the UK when you were in another EC country, you may still get contribution-based JSA but only if:

If you are coming to the UK, or coming back here, to look for work, you may be able to carry on getting the other EC country's unemployment benefit in the UK for up to three months.  To get it you must:

To get another EC country's unemployment benefit in the UK you will need form E 303.  You should ask for it in the country you are about to leave.

Make sure that you do everything that you need to do to follow the rules before you leave.  If you do not do this you may lose benefit.

Give form E 303 to the office at which you claim benefit in the UK.  But note that some countries will not give you form E 303.  Instead they will send it direct to the Benefits Agency.

Leaflet JSAL 22 tells you more about contribution-based JSA for people going abroad or coming from abroad.  You can get it from Jobcentres in the UK.

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If you are getting Maternity Allowance and you are going to another EC country, check with your social security office well before you leave.  Make sure that you read the parts of this leaflet (paragraphs 26 - 37) that  tell you about health care, so that you can sort things out in time.

Maternity benefit from another EC country
If you have been working in another EC country you may have become insured for sickness since the last time.  If you have, and you claim maternity benefit under that country's scheme, your UK insurance may help you get it.  The authorities there will ask the Contributions Agency for details of your UK insurance record.

The contributions Agency will send them on form E 104.  They will usually need to get in touch with the employer you used to work for in the UK before they can send form E 104.  The authorities who run the foreign maternity scheme will decide your claim using their own rules.

UK Maternity Allowance in the UK
If you are insured under the UK scheme while you are working for your employer, you can usually get SMP.  But if for any reason you cannot get SMP in the UK you may get Maternity Allowance instead.

If you claim UK Maternity Allowance in this country the sickness insurance paid in another EC country may be used to help you get UK benefit.  But only if you have worked and paid insurance contributions under the UK scheme as an employed or self employed person since the last time you arrived in the UK.

Before you return to the UK get a record of your sickness insurance from the authorities in the EC country.  Ask them for form E 104 and keep it in case you need it.  If you do claim UK Maternity Allowance, give the form to the social security office dealing with your claim.

If you have not paid UK contributions as employed or self-employed person since your last arrival in the UK, you may still get UK Maternity Allowance if:

Benefits from two or more EC countries
If you could claim maternity benefit from more than one EC country, you can usually get it from the country your baby is born in.  If you cannot get benefit in that country, you can claim it from the country where you were insured last.

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UK Short-term Incapacity Benefit in another EC country
If for any reason you cannot get SSP in another EC country, but you were last insured under the UK scheme, you may get UK short-term Incapacity Benefit instead.

You may get:

If you are getting UK short-term Incapacity Benefit in the UK and you are thinking of going top another EC country, you should check with your social security office before you leave.  They will be able to tell you if going abroad will affect your benefit.  Make sure you read the parts paragraphs 26 - 37 that tells you about health care, so that you can sort things out in good time.

When your time for getting UK short-term Incapacity Benefit runs out you may be able to get UK long-term Incapacity Benefit.  For more information read the paragraphs on long-term Incapacity Benefit later in this section.

Benefit for short-term sickness from another EC country
If you have been working in another EC country, you may have become insured for sickness since the last time you arrived there.  If you have, and you claim benefit under that country's scheme, your UK insurance may help you to get it.  The authorities there will ask the Contributions Agency for details of your UK insurance record.

The Contributions Agency will send them on form E 204.  They will usually need to get in touch with the employer you used to work for in the UK before they can send form E 104.  The authorities who run the foreign sickness scheme will decide your claim using their own rules.

If you have worked and become insured in another EC country, and you then fall sick, you may wish to come back to the UK.  If this happens you may get the other country's sickness benefit in the UK.  But you should claim the benefit before you come back to the UK.

UK short-term Incapacity Benefit when you come to the UK
If you are insured under the UK scheme and you fall sick while you are working for your employer, you can usually get SSP.  But if for any reason you cannot get SSP in the UK you may get UK short-term Incapacity Benefit instead.

If you claim UK short-term Incapacity Benefit in this country the sickness insurance you paid in another EC country may be used to help you get UK benefit.  But only if you have worked and paid insurance contributions under the UK scheme as an employed or self-employed person since the last time you arrived in the UK.

Before you return to the UK get a record of your sickness insurance from the authorities in the other EC country.  Ask them for form E 104 and keep it in case you need it.  If you do claim UK short-term Incapacity Benefit, give the form to the social security office dealing  with your claim.  You should note that you cannot usually get benefit from more than one country for one lot of sickness.

If you have not paid UK contributions as an employed or self-employed person in the UK since your last arrival in the UK, you may still get short-term Incapacity Benefit but only if:

UK long-term Incapacity Benefit
If you have only been insured for sickness in the UK, you may be able to get long-term Incapacity Benefit anywhere you may live or stay in the EC as long as you satisfy the rules and continue to be unfit for work.

If you have been insured in the UK and in another EC country, the benefit you can get depends on which other country or countries you have been insured in.  This is because there are different rules for working out your benefit.  Read the paragraphs below for more information.

Benefit for long-term sickness from another EC country
If you have been insured in the UK and also in any of the following countries:

• Belgium
• France (except if you were a minor or you were self-employed agricultural worker)
• Greece (in the agricultural scheme only)
• Netherlands
• Republic of Ireland
• Spain

Only one of them will pay you benefit.  This is usually the country in which you were last insured when your sickness began.  If you were last insured in the UK, you will get full-rate long-term Incapacity Benefit  and you may also get an increase for your dependants if you satisfy the rules.

If you were last insured in one of the above countries, you will get that county's invalidity benefit.  Previous periods of UK insurance may help you to satisfy the rules of the country from which you claim your benefit.

The country that pays your benefit may also pay you extra for an adult who depends on you.  It does not matter if they live in another EC country, as long as your husband or your wife does not work you may you may also be paid extra for any children who depend on you.

Benefit for long-term sickness from more than one EC country
If you have been insured at any time in the UK and also in:

• Spain

you may be able to get UK long-term Incapacity Benefit and also invalidity benefit from each of the countries where you were insured.  If you were also insured in an countries listed in the previous paragraph, these countries may pay you invalidity benefit as well.

Each country where you have been insured will work out how much of their benefit they can pay you.  Different rules apply to any extra you may get for an adult and child(ren) who depend on you.  Read How you claim is dealt with an Getting extra for your dependants  later.

If you are getting benefit from only one of the countries where you were insured, ask the authorities that pay your benefit to send your claim to the other country or countries where you were insured.  They will then consider whether they can pay your benefit.

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• your age
• how disabled you are
• how long you have lived in the UK

if you want to claim Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA).  If you are already get SDA and you want to go to another EC country, get in touch with the Benefit Agency.  Ask if you will be able to take your SDA with you.

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If the EC country you are going to live in has a benefit like one of the UK allowances, any time you spent working as a self-employed person or for an employer in the UK, or any time you lived here, may help you to be able to claim the foreign benefit.

You should also note that similar rules apply if you claim a UK allowance in the UK.  Any periods spent working in another EC country as a self-employed person or for an employer, or any time you lived there, may help you satisfy the rules in the country for getting a UK allowance.

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Or if you cannot work because of an accident at work or because you have one of the industrial diseases on the official list, you may be able to get Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit.  The Benefit Agency will tell you more.

If you worked in two or more EC countries in a job which gave you one of the industrial diseases on the official list, you will only get benefit from the country where you were working last in the job that gave you the disease.  Note - This does not apply if you have pneumoconiosis.  There are special rules for this.

If your disease gets worse and you are getting, or if you used to get, benefit from an EC country, that country will usually pay you an extra benefit that you may be able to have.  You will need to have a further medical assessment.

But you may getting benefit from one EC country, and you are now doing the same job that gave you the disease, but in a different EC country.  If you are, the first country will not pay you an extra benefit.  Instead, the second country will pay you benefit, and they will use their own rules to decide how much you should get.  They will look at how much worse you disease has become.

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UK state pension age
UK state pension age is 65 for men and 60 for woman.  But over a ten-year period starting on 6 April 2010, UK state pension age for woman will change from age 60 to age 65.  This means:

• woman born before 6 April 1950 will reach pension age at age 60
• woman born on or after 6 April 1955 will reach pension age at age 65
• woman born on or after 6 April 1950 and before 6 April 1955 will reach pension age at 60 plus 1 month for every month or part month their date of birth is after 5 April 1950.  For those woman Retirement Pension will always be awarded from the 6th of the same month.

Example
A woman is born on 21 November 1950.  
Number of months from 6 April 1950 to 21 November 1950 =8 
(November counts as one month)

UK state pension age = July 2011
(age 60 is November 2010 plus 8 months = July 2011)

Pension will be paid 6 July 2011.

UK pension forecast
If you are within four months or more from UK pension age, you can ask for a forecast of what UK pension you can expect to get.  It will tell you what your pension is now and whether or not you can get more by the time you reach UK pension age.  But it will not include any insurance you have paid in another EC country.

If you are living in another EC country or you are going abroad soon, write to the Contributions Agency and ask for an application form.  If you are living in the UK and you are going to live in another EC country for the same time, you should get the application form BR 19 from your social security office.

How to claim your pension
Every EC country has its own rules.  You must follow these rules before a pension can be paid to you.  The age that you can start to get your Retirement Pension may also be different in the other countries.

You can claim your pension directly from any EC country that you have been insured in.  Or you can claim from the EC country you live in when you are getting near pension age.

If you have been insured in the UK we will usually send you a claim form about four months before you reach UK pension age.  The form will ask you if you want to claim a UK Retirement Pension.  It asks you to tell us about any insurance and residence you may have in other countries.

Remember to tell the Benefits Agency when you change your address or the form may not get to you.

If your husband dies when you are in one EC country, but he was insured in another EC country, you may claim widow's benefits in either of the countries.

If you claim Retirement Pension or widow's benefit in the EC country where you live, that country will pass details of your claim to any other EC country where you or your late husband have been insured.

How your claim is dealt with
Each EC country where you have paid insurance towards a pension will look at your insurance under its own scheme and will work out how much pension you can have.  As long as you meet the rules you will get a pension from each county.

Each country will also look at any insurance you have in another EC country.  This can help you get a pension, or a higher pension, under its own scheme.

To do this each country sends details of your insurance record to the others.  Each country then works out how much to pay you.

They do this in two way:

Method A
Each country works out how much pension you can get, just from what you have paid into its own social security scheme.

Method B
Each country adds together your insurance in all countries.  Then each ones sees how much pension you would get if your insurance had all been paid into its own social security scheme.  But each country only has to pay you part of this.  How much it pays you depends on how much you have paid into its scheme.

For example , if one-third of the insurance you have paid was from the UK, then the UK would pay one-third of the total pension it has worked out you could get.  All the other countries usually work out how much they are going to pay in the same way.

When a country has worked out your pension in the way shown in Method A, it will usually pay it to you while you wait for Method B to be done.  If your pension is higher under Method B, you will get the higher one without having to ask.

Any UK graduated contributions you have paid are not used in working out Methods A and B.  But  you can get a pension from these contributions whether or not you get a pension using Method A or B above.

How your pension will be paid
Each EC country decides how it will pay your pension.  If you have any questions about this get in touch with the authorities who run your pension scheme in that country.  If you are in the UK you can be paid a pension from any other EC country.  But if you are, any UK Income Support that you have been getting may go down or stop.

You can be paid a UK retirement pension (with an extra amount if you are aged 80 or more), or widow's benefits, in any other EC country. You will get in the UK.

You will usually be paid straight into your bank account in the UK or abroad, if you have one. Or, if you wish you can choose to have payment payable orders sent straight to you by post or to a Uk building society if you have an account there. Whichever you choose, payment is made every 4 or 13 weeks in arrears.

If you get back payments before you started being paid your pension they will usually be paid straight to you.
But:

Getting extra for your dependants
If you can get a pension from EC country, you can also be paid extra for any adult who depends on you. You can get this extra pension even if the person who depends on you is in another EC country.  The extra person will be worked out in the same way as the rest of your pension.  Look at How your pension will be paid to find out more details.

There are special rules for children who depend on you. If the EC country you live pays a pension, it should pay the benefits for your children, too.  It will base them on it's own scheme.  You may get Child Benefit or extra pension for the children, or both.

If you do not get a pension in the country where you live, and you and your husband or your wife are not working, the benefits for your children will be paid either:

Benefits for children of workers who have died
There are special rules about benefits for children of someone who has died.  If you are a widow and your husband was insured only in one EC country, that country pays the benefits for a child.  It will work out what the benefits are using it's own rules under it's own scheme.  They may be child benefits, orphans pension or extra widow's pension, or some of each.

If your husband was insured in more than one EC country, it will usually be the country where the child lives that pays the benefits.

But your husband must have been insured in that country, and there must be some benefit to be paid for he child.

If your husband has not been insured in the country where the child usually lives, or that country cannot pay any child benefits, the EC country where your husband was insured for the longest period has to pay the child benefits.

Other EC countries may use your husband's insurance when they work out if they can get benefit for the child.

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Children's allowance from another EC country
If you are in another EC country:

If you could get benefit from two different countries
It may be that you and your husband or wife could both get benefit from two different EC countries for the same child.  If so, both countries will not have to pay all the benefit.  The country where one of you works and pays into the social security scheme will usually pay.

If you or your husband or wife are working in different countries and you are both paying into the social security scheme in each country, the country the child lives in will usually pay benefit. The other country may pay something too.  They may do this if you would get more for the child in their country. They may pay the extra you would have got there.

If you want to know more about Child Benefit you might get, write to:

To find out more about this, write to:

Benefits from another EC country
Another EC country may pay you benefit for a child which has lost either one or both its parents.  If so, you can usually carry on getting it in the UK.

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If you are:

As well as other things, the adjudication office will decide this by asking you if:

• you have recently worked in the UK
• how long have you worked in another EC country
• why you have come to the UK, and
• how long you intend to stay in the UK.

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If you cannot get any benefits that are based on insurance and you need help with money, ask the welfare authorities in the area where you live, about  any other benefits which you can get.  They will be able to tell you if you have lived in that country long enough to get them.  They will also tell you if you have lived in that country long enough to get them.  They will also tell you if your right to live there would change if you claimed the benefits.

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Contribution-based Jobseeker's Allowance
Go to your local Employment Service Jobcentre.  It is listed in the business numbers section of the phone book.  

Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay
Contact your employer.

Other benefits
Go to your social security office. For your nearest office, look for the display advert under the Benefits Agency in the business numbers section of the phone book..

Claiming UK or other countries' benefits when in another EC country
Claim in the country you are in. Go to the authorities who run the insurance scheme there.

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You may need a form, usually form E 104,