UK, Ireland / Poles claim UK benefits after working only one year instead of going home [156]

I for one must stand up for the Poles who came to Ireland looking for work, yes they got work in the construction industry, but their wives, sisters took meanial tasks in cleaning industry which my fellow Irishmen/women decided was below there standards.

Granted that the Child Benefit system here being paid to those fathers who were working here at a rate nearly nine times the money the mother was receiving in Poland..That was one EU law that should have been looked at more closely...I think Polish women are totally gorgeous and stunningly beautiful..I love the name Beata

UK, Ireland / Poles claim UK benefits after working only one year instead of going home [156]

Kasia501

I dont have anything against other EU residents claiming benefits, but from what I know about Poland's Child Benefits, the rate is only a fraction of what ireland pays out. For one child in Ireland its €166.00 per month. Whe the 10 accession countries joined the EU back in 2000, a limit of the rate of benefits they could receive should have benn put on them for a probationary period, knowing that there would be ahuge influx of immigrants into those countries which paid out a higher rate of Benefit.