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Punam Birly Director and Steve Mayled Senior Manager of KPMG's International Social Security Practice consider the key features of the EU social security rules which the new Member States will have to navigate
 
On 1 May 2004 the ten new Member States who joined the European Union (EU): Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Malta Poland Slovakia and Slovenia immediately became subject to the EU provisions on social security. These provisions have the free movement of persons equality of treatment and benefit protection as their overriding purpose and are designed to co-ordinate the social security regimes of all 29 countries (includes EEA and Switzerland). In most of these countries the state benefit funds are under increasing pressure as a result...

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