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Polish workers losing their UK jobs in the economic downturn are choosing not to return home but to stay and take advantage of the generous benefits system.
Immigrants from eastern Europe who have worked in Britain for 12 months or more can claim the full range of UK state benefits, including child and housing benefit and jobseekers' allowance.
This is because benefit handouts in Poland are a fraction of those available in the UK. Child benefit for a first child in Britain is £20 a week, compared with around £3 per week in Poland.
So now we are even importing the unemployed?
Polish workers losing their UK jobs in the economic downturn are choosing not to return home but to stay and take advantage of the generous benefits system.
Immigrants from eastern Europe who have worked in Britain for 12 months or more can claim the full range of UK state benefits, including child and housing benefit and jobseekers' allowance.
This is because benefit handouts in Poland are a fraction of those available in the UK. Child benefit for a first child in Britain is £20 a week, compared with around £3 per week in Poland.
So now we are even importing the unemployed?
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