EU legislation that allows and supports the free movement of persons and services is directly linked to the social security system and its coordination.

EU legislation that allows and supports the free movement of persons and services is directly linked to the social security system and its coordination. EU provides some common rules for the protection of the right to social security of persons that change their workplace or place of business via its Coordination Regulations No. 883/2004 and No 987/2009. General principle is that if such a person is entitled to the payment of a social security benefit in one EU Member State, that entitlement remains valid even if her current place of employment or business is in a Member State different from the one in which this claim originated. Moreover, for the purpose of assessing the entitlement to a social security benefit in one Member State, the previous periods during which an employment or business activity was carried out in another Member State has to be taken into account.

Beyond the above, the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 7th February 2019 in the case C-322/17 concluded that in order to be eligible to receive family benefits in the competent Member State in respect of children living in another Member State, it is not necessary for a person either to pursue an activity as an employed person in the former Member State or to be in receipt of cash benefits from that Member State because or as a consequence of such activity.

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