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<p>Access to Child Benefit follows the long-standing Government policy that those
who have not established their right to remain permanently in the UK should not have
welfare provision on the same basis as those whose citizenship or status here gives
them an entitlement to benefits. All those admitted to the UK for a temporary purpose
are required, under the immigration rules, to be able to maintain and accommodate
themselves without recourse to public funds.</p><p> </p><p>For this reason, apart
from specified exceptions – set out in the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum
Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2000 – persons subject to immigration control
are not eligible for Child Benefit.</p>
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