Last modified on Thu 22 Jul 2021 19.04 EDT Significant numbers of Europeans in the UK aged over 65 failed to apply to the EU settlement scheme (EUSS) before the deadline, a parliamentary report has found, warning that this could make thousands of retirement-aged EU nationals vulnerable to Britainâs hostile environment policies. Just 2% of all applications for the settlement scheme were submitted by people aged over 65, a percentage that is unlikely to reflect the population of older EU nationals living in the UK. Charities supporting older Europeans to apply said they had âencountered many individuals who have no mobile phone, no digital access and inappropriate or no documentationâ, and the report warned that people who struggled with the digital technology required to apply were more likely to have missed the deadline for applications at the end of last month.