9 years worth of national insurance, tax and full time employment
sorry for the slavic word. im not racist, just easier to use that word than eastern europeans
the same article you quoted (about 22 million pounds paid as child benefit for children left behind in Poland) states this:
Figures released by the Treasury in answer to Parliamentary written questions from the Conservatives show that at the end of September 26,000 Polish children from 16,286 families were being paid child benefits by UK taxpayers.
hardly a big number you know - and as far as I can tell single Polish mothers (who have delivered their children in the UK and according to the British law their children are British) can't really get a UK child benefit unless they are residing in Britain
then compare the figure (20 million something) with the one spent on all kinds of benefits yearly in Britain you have quoted somewhere in the thread - it was over 100 billion pounds yearly IIRC