Select committee: Home Affairs Committee
Recommendation 7
6th Report - Earned Settlement: Examining the Government’s proposed reforms
Published 13 Mar 2026
Addressed to Home Office
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We recommend that the Home Office applies reductions to qualifying periods for settlement for direct fiscal contribution at a household level, not at an individual level, to recognise that generally households make financial decisions as units. (Recommendation, Paragraph 31) 58 Workers Classifying medium-skilled workers
From: Home Affairs Committee, 6th Report - Earned Settlement: Examining the Government’s proposed reforms (HC 1409), 13 March 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 13 May 2026, 172 days ago.