benefit tourist
noun British informal
A person who travels to or within Britain in order to live off social security payments while untruthfully claiming to be seeking work.He's the ‘benefit tourist’ who grabbed £1.5 million in a tax rebate in Britain in 2002....
- The Government has taken action to stem the arrival of people from 10 new EU countries, but the situation is more complex than ‘benefit tourist’ scare stories.
- Sadly, the Government has left it to the eleventh hour before thinking about how these loopholes might be closed and the nation's borders secured against a tide of benefit tourists.
Derivatives
benefit tourism
- The habitual residence test was introduced as a centrepiece for a party conference speech in order to deal with the dangers of what is described as benefit tourism.
- The Opposition said that benefit tourism was a non- problem, and that there were at most 5,000 continental claimants a year.
- I intend to monitor migration flows but, contrary to what was said regarding the accession states previously, large numbers did not migrate and I do not anticipate a scenario such as benefit tourism occurring in Ireland.