Without working first there could be hardly any "milking".
Wrong. Lets look at Magda.
First off, she stopped working. She didnt lose her job. Why did she stop working? To live on welfare. She admits this herself.
She earned €200 a week. Must have been part time. I doubt she is the sort who had have allowed herself to be exploited. She is very well versed in her "entitlements". She signed on as part of a plan to set herself up as a professional, self-employed masseur. She gets a welfare payment and after paying for her house (rent allowance) she says she has €172 per week of which €40 a month goes for the internet and a landline phone, €35 for a mobile. Leaving her with €100 approx. per week to spend as disposable income.
She gets a 'warm clothing allowance'. (How? There's nothing For thabout this on the HSE website, never heard of it before).
So, lets do the math.
€267 * 52 = €13,884 per annum. She plans to be in receipt of this for 42 months before she goes on the back to work scheme.
Lets say she was earning minimum wage, for the previous years she worked here.
2 years on min. wage of €8.65 per hour - €364 per week, she claims she worked part time, but I am being generous here. She will have paid €1,753 maximum over her working life in the Irish state. More likely, one third of that.
For that, she will pocket €48,954 over a 42 month period, her rent paid and the state to pay for her to attend courses, to learn how to drive, plus the nixers she freely admits to undertaking.
. Would be happy to reasses my position if you back your argument up with anything concrete or valid
Cool.
Foreign nationals make up circa 14% of the population yet 18% of the live register. Remember, naturalised immigrants are considered Irish in all government issued statistics, so in reality the 18% figure is much higher.
Which puts to bed your earlier claim that......
They no more milk the system than the locals, in fact a damn sight less.
One in three of those in receipt of housing allowance, are foreigners.
In fact, in parts of Dublin over 80% of those on the housing list, are foreign born(Fingal for example).
How could you qualify for 99% of benefits available there if you hadn't worked (and paid taxes) for a good few years before that?
Once you have made 104 prsi contributiions in an EU state, two of which were in Ireland, you qualify for Jobseekers benefit.
Once you qualify as "habitual resident" in the state, you qualify for Jobseekers Allowance.
Proof of rent, internet bill, Irish bank account etc will normally suffice.
Or do you think all the roma gypsies, Nigerian failed asylum seekers or burqa clad middle eastern women without a word of the local lingo have a two year previous working history in the state?
lol