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

There are people of all nationalities abusing the system. I don't agree with it, but I can see how it happens. There are plenty of british people claiming disability for faked illnesses and getting away with not working, or working on the side whilst claiming benefits. There are plenty of Pakistani's and Africans claiming for kids they don't actually have. It's up to the government to curb the rules, but with the EU continually setting the laws in our own country it is difficult.

All the Polish people I know are hard working and their rate of pay is quite low, some can claim child benefit and do so for children back home in Poland.

You have to look at it this way, if life was good in Poland, (money wise, job wise) then they'd all be over there, working. Instead some have to spend their lives apart from their children to make a better life for them. I would die without my children.

I'm sure I would have done the same in similar circumstances.

So Polish people can claim benefits, so can a lot of other people too, and is it their fault or is it part of EU rules?