Why are we paying 拢20m to children in Poland?

left there while their parents are over in the uk where does this money come from and who in Poland does it go to

It is not six months as Polish workers are not aloud to claim for the first 12 months, after this they are aloud family benefit the same as anyone else, if their wages are below a certain level.

And as for the idea that immigrants are here to grow lazy on UK benefits - there are 510,000 Central & Eastern Europeans who have (to date) registered on the Home Office's worker registration scheme. Approximately 55,000 - i.e. 11%- claim tax credits or child benefit. Only 350 are claiming income support, and 859 job seeker's allowance. These figures courtesy of the Daily Mail (22 November), which estimates an annual cost of "up to GBP 60 million."

This may well be right. But hang on a moment - these 510,000 registered immigrants are all legal, and captured in the tax system. Let's assume they all earn the minimum wage only, work for 40 hours a week, and earn GBP 214. Working 45 weeks per year, total income is GBP 9630, and total income tax and national insurance payable GBP 1257. This means the UK govt. gets some GBP 641 million in tax receipts from immigrants - 10 times the amount paid out - and guess what - the balance is spent on services for the rest of us.(OK - the govt. may waste it on silly foreign adventures, but that's another problem).

So my second question for the statistically challenged among you is this - who benefits financially from immigration?

My two points are these. One - immigrants create jobs, and contribute more to the UK than they take out. And two - try and debate on the basis of facts, not ignorance and prejudice.

Let's just hope that some of the children turn out to be good cricketers, rugby players or footballers ... we could do with the help ...

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phd1066, it works the other way round as well, in Poland if I was working I could claim benefits for my children back in the UK as well and this happens all over Europe.
I agree it should be changed and this loophole should be closed and ONLY available to those who really need it.

But answer me honestly if it was there would you take advantage of this loophole, of course you would!!!

It's not the Polish peoples fault it's the British government who are to blame, because people will take advantage of any situation if they can, and you cannot tell me any different.
Look at the Asians in the UK, when they send people from India and get them to claim for benefit, fly them home and then one man claims the benefit for himself, and there have been countless cases of this going on.

Seems too easy to blame someone else when you should be looking on your own doorstep!!!

Its the first I have heard of money going to poland maybe its for the orphans.The ones over here should contribute to it.

Is someone forcing you to pay? call the police