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<p> </p><p>In March 2013, information was extracted from HMRC's tax credit system
in respect of the number of families claiming tax credits where, if claiming as a
couple, at least one of the family members was recorded as being a non-UK national
when they registered for a National Insurance number.</p><p> </p><p>The extract shows
that as at March 2013, 715,900 such families were claiming tax credits. If we assume
no further changes until the end of the relevant year, the annual tax credits entitlement
of these awards was £4.9 billion. The same extract showed that the total number of
families claiming tax credits was 4,705,100 with an annual entitlement of £29.55 billion.</p><p>
</p><p>For this purpose, as nationality was based on nationality at the time a claimant
first registered for a National Insurance Number (NINO)the nationality of some of
those claimants may have since changed. The information is not therefore sufficiently
reliable to be used for formal statistical purposes.</p><p> </p><p>Based on this information
the numbers of non-UK nationals claiming Tax Credits as a percentage of the entire
Tax Credits population are broadly in line with the percentage of non-UK nationals
in the UK workforce (according to figures in the 2013 Labour Force Survey complied
by the ONS).</p><p> </p>
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