Poland no Unemployment benefits after paying taxes for 20 years

The first one was two years, the second one was five years, the last one was permanent residency, obviously, permanent has a different meaning in Polish, as on receiving it, I noticed it has to be renewed after 10 years.

Jaysus, I'm lucky Poland let me in so. I came here with 2 months rent and a few shillings for beer and grub the promise of a handful of job interviews.


Ah, sure I was close enough ;)

You understood it wrong. Poland will let you in, but can throw you out after 3 months if you don't prove to have savings or find a job. But as I said up to now I've heard that only Netherlands is considering using this law to throw people out.

So why didn't anyone try to get in touch with me after 3 months to see if I was still here, or working or whatever?

I can honestly say that I've had zero dealings with anyone from the Polish state since moving here...........except for last year when I was sent a letter from the tax authorities pointing out a wee spelling mistake on my tax form.

I doubt they really give tuppence about Western foreigners tbh.

but I wrote why:


Because most of countries don't enforce this law or only in single cases.

Let's be clear. With open boarders and all govenments have no interest in strictly enforcing 3 months rule , but it you want government help they can say, you should have registered, you didn't so we don't need to help you.

Can ALL posters stick to the thread topic please.

So, roughly 600,000PLN a year for 20 years. That's a total of 12,000,000PLN. You are saying that after earning that much, he really needed to go on the dole in Poland and there was no savings? To most Polish people that's more than even a lottery win and they would happily live their lives never working again. What the hell was this guy spending on?

ZUS doesn't work and doesn't support the people like it should, but it's the same in the UK. Would this guy have been happier going back to the UK and getting £76 a week?

Nobody said so. How much he was earning is irrelevant, because it's each worker right to get benefits after loosing job. He was paying 20 years taxes for that.

Well accually just paying Taxes wouldn't be enough , but he probably also paid "Fundusz Pracy", which would have meant he would have been given 120% of "standard" benefits if he didn't miss the deadline. ( If he paid for more than 20 years).

it's just yet another tax

it is, but there could be another article saying claiming the same as above, saying they paid taxes , but were refused unemployed benefits on base of not paying enough Fundusz Pracy, as so called garbage jobs and starting self-employed don't pay it.

Right now if you have "Umowa o Dzieło" Umowa zlecenie" or "Kontrakt menedżerski" or pay reduced ZUS in first years of self employment you wont receive benefits. Just in case somebody needed that knowledge.