HC Deb 06 March 1978 vol 945 c473W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services in view of the fact that people who land in the United Kingdom can claim social security benefits 'for their own children who arrive with them, whether such benefits can also he claimed for children previously adopted by arriving immigrants.

Mr. Orme

Yes. If someone newly admitted to this country for settlement brings adopted children with him or her, those children count for benefit purposes in the same way as that person's own children.

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