£30M of UK child benefit goes to EU families

[CuMo 10]

Call me blind but I have never seen a polish guy driving a black cab.

Edited January 8, 2015 by CuMo

[tzijlstra 11]

USKIP supporting newspapers will be revealing such revelations until the general election next year.

 

Love it USKIP, brilliant Freudian slip, so many possibilities!

 

We serve our own tables first, you however? U SKIP.

 

We are the righteous inhabitants of these shores, you however? U SKIP.

 

U SKIP, we serve.

[ANGELFIRE1 10]

Sending our brass abroad to the family of a worker who is here is indefensible imho.

 

Angel1

[Se7enhills 10]

Interesting how its all about Immigration -so some say........

 

The problem with the EU is that it is some socialist monokith trying to impose socialist thought on England....

[taxman 12]

All the people who voted UKIP must carry on doing so to end all this madness. Dont lets stop this bandwaggon of anti EU vote !

 

This type of thing is all too common. British benefits for British people.

 

What will they be entitled too next, Home Help for Grandma back in Poland ?

(Slight exaggeration of course)

 

We cant carry on being dictated to by Brussels. Its madness, keep voting UKIP folks. Make the mainstream parties wake up !

 

You'll be wanting to stop cold weather payments for British pensioners living in Spain next. Won't you?

 

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Interesting how its all about Immigration -so some say........

 

The problem with the EU is that it is some socialist monokith trying to impose socialist thought on England....

 

Yet one of the few genuinely Socialist MPs we've had in the last 30 years, Tony Benn, was vehemently opposed to the EU because he saw it as a way of spreading free market capitalism at the expense of workers rights.

Edited May 27, 2014 by taxman

[RonJeremy 10]

Don't let Cameron fool you,he loves all immigrants,all that public money going in to the pockets of his mega rich mates who are public landlords, its a complete scam.

 

But it was Blair and his Labour cronies who opened the flood gates to every Tom Dick and Ali to come here and abuse the asylum system. Pre 1997 there was a white list of countries from which asylum couldn't be claimed. Combined with Blair et al adopting the European Human Rights into British law made everything worse.

Labour deliberately increased immigration.

 

Cameron has been trying to reduce immigration whilst trying to avoid the PC brigade shouting wacist at every opportunity.

 

You accusation really doesn't stand up at all. Sorry.

As for people coming here and claiming benefits, I fail to see how this benefits anyone except for the exporting country and the emigrant. Well apart from enriching us all culturally!!

 

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You'll be wanting to stop cold weather payments for British pensioners living in Spain next. Won't you?

 

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Yet one of the few genuinely Socialist MPs we've had in the last 30 years, Tony Benn, was vehemently opposed to the EU because he saw it as a way of spreading free market capitalism at the expense of workers rights.

 

Yes. The cold weather payments were an electoral bribe and should be stopped.

 

Tony benn was wrong about everything. Always has been.

I know that some people only voted to join the EEC because he was against it.

 

The rot set in when they dropped the second E.

[buck 11]

Whats wrong with a British OAP claiming a British pension whilst living abroad.

The British benefits system should be for the British, the German benefits system should be for Germans and Romanian benefits system should be for Romanians.

 

Two thirds of Germans believe immigrants are an 'extra burden' which have caused 'serious problems' for the country

I worked in Britain from age 16 to 37 before emigrating to Canada in 1968. I eventually became an American citizen in 1987. When I retired at age 62, the US Social Security Administration helped me to get my social security benefits I had earned in Canada and the UK as well as here. I am paid them to this day.I am also , as a Royal Navy Veteran, entitled to free medical care at any Military Instiitution in the Commonwealth, as well as the Republic of Ireland. I am grateful to my homeland for its care of the elderly, wherever they are.

 

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UK benefits should only be paid to UK citizens residing in the UK. Simples.

You pay into the fund, then you're entitled to the benefits, wherever you are. Thats even simpler.The dear old Blighty pays a little over $400 bucks into my bank account every four weeks. Thanks Zamo, much appreciated.

[Zamo 10]

I worked in Britain from age 16 to 37 before emigrating to Canada in 1968. I eventually became an American citizen in 1987. When I retired at age 62, the US Social Security Administration helped me to get my social security benefits I had earned in Canada and the UK as well as here. I am paid them to this day.I am also , as a Royal Navy Veteran, entitled to free medical care at any Military Instiitution in the Commonwealth, as well as the Republic of Ireland. I am grateful to my homeland for its care of the elderly, wherever they are.

 

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You pay into the fund, then you're entitled to the benefits, wherever you are. Thats even simpler.The dear old Blighty pays a little over $400 bucks into my bank account every four weeks. Thanks Zamo, much appreciated.

 

Pensions aren't a benefit and pension funds can be transferred. You've earned that and I don't begrudge you that or access to health care, which I note is not provided by your adopted country.

 

It is not an argument for welcoming in immigrants who can't pay their share. Every adult needs to contribute and average of over £16k in tax to keep the country ticking over. I don't want to be making up the shortfall for new arrivals when we are struggling to do it as it is - hence a huge national debt. What is wrong with selective immigration to make immigration work for us better? Doesn't you beloved adopted country have it? Am I welcome to come to America, work 16 hours a week at McDonalds and you'll pay my rent, pay for my kids to go through school, give us free health insurance etc? Didn't think so.

[Cyclone 10]

So what you are saying is that Spain should cough up the child benefit as well as lose the income from the Spanish worker so that the UK can fill a vacancy without having the expenses associated with it?

 

This spat could well end up more expensive for the UK by the way, if this is one of the things that Cameron wants to renegotiate, than fine, the other nations will actually be relieved. It is estimated that for the 600K economically inactive EU immigrants in the UK there are some 950K economically inactive Brits in the EU. Guess who is going to end up paying for them?

 

If the child lives in Spain then the child is Spanish responsibility.

 

Maybe it would cost the UK more, but there'd be no more headlines about paying child benefit for children that aren't here, have never been here and are nothing to do with the UK.

[Bonzo77 13]

I might be being a bit nieve, but how does paying benefits to a person that's entitled to them (wherever they live), mean the UK is losing out?

 

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If the child lives in Spain then the child is Spanish responsibility.

 

Maybe it would cost the UK more, but there'd be no more headlines about paying child benefit for children that aren't here, have never been here and are nothing to do with the UK.

 

The child's parent is just as important as you are to the UK, surely? Other than having a family in the UK, the parent works, lives, Eats, drinks, pays taxes, entertains himself in the UK.

[ivanava 10]

I might be being a bit nieve, but how does paying benefits to a person that's entitled to them (wherever they live), mean the UK is losing out?

 

Does that same argument work for Amazon, they are entitled to pay tax in an other country so no one should be bothered that they don't pay it here.

 

Or should we be bothered and do what ever possible to remove those entitlements.

[Mecky 10]

Is it being reported in any newspapers that don't have quite the same reputation as these two?

 

Perhaps, but people did mention those two papers and that should tell you everything you need to know about those type of people