Social security

The Supreme Court referred to the European Court of Justice questions arising from the issue of whether the UK was precluded, by Council Regulation (EC) no 1408/71 (on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, self-employed persons and members of their families moving within the Community) from imposing a requirement of residence in Great Britain as a condition of entitlement to disability living allowance and thus depriving a claimant who had gone to live in another member state of that benefit.