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Immigrants to the UK are being tested on their English skills before being able to claim income- related benefits under a new scheme. People are being asked what efforts they have made to find work before coming to Britain.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said people should not be able to "take (1) " of British benefits. Labor supports English tests (2) says ministers are ignoring the exploitation of low-skilled migrant workers.
Job centers in England, Scotland and Wales began using the "more robust" language tests on Monday and they are being (3) to all centers. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the test would (4) "only migrants who have a legal right to be in Britain and plan to (5) to this country can make a claim (6) benefits". "For the first time, migrants will be quizzed about what efforts they have made to find work before coming to the UK and whether their English language skills will be a (7) to them finding employment," the DWP said in a (8) . DWP sources said the tests (9) everyone whether he is a migrant or not.
Income-related benefits (10) council tax benefit, housing benefit, income-based jobseeker’s allowance and pension (11) Mr. Duncan Smith said British people were "rightly (12) " that migrants should contribute to the economy and should not be "drawn here by the (13) of our benefits system".
"It is (14) important that we have strict rules in (15) to protect the integrity of our benefits system," he said.
He said the new test would help create a (16) system which provided for "genuine" workers and jobseekers but "does not (17) people to come to our country and take advantage". To (18) the benefits, migrants will have to pass a "habitual (19) test" including more than 100 (20) questions compared to now.

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