Brussels, 22/02/2012 (Agence Europe) - The European regulation on social cover for migrant workers does not prevent the member states from granting child benefit to seconded or seasonal workers. Nor, however, does it impose on them any obligations to do so and member states retain the right not to make benefit payments or to reduce the amount, if similar benefits are paid in another state.
This is the interpretation of the above-mentioned regulation (1408/71/EEC) suggested to the Court by...