Question follow-through · 49716
Unemployment Benefits: North Macedonia
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK nationals resident in Macedonia have claimed unemployment benefits in each year since 2020.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many UK nationals resident in Macedonia have claimed unemployment benefits in each year since 2020.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The UK does not pay a UK Unemployment Benefit to people resident in the Balkan region, and the UK has no information about UK nationals resident in those countries receiving benefits administered by those countries.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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