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Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]
If a person works for a year and then lose their job they are entitled to 6 months of unemployment benefits
yes but they also have to prove they are actively searching for employment and go for interviews to keep getting those lousy what, £60 a week? now if you have kids or a disability (obesity is the new disability) it goes into more interesting figures and you have to prove nothing, this is where i think the problem is. a lot of times people make stuff up and you get an article in a paper almost everyday about people cheating the state out of thousands of £££ because they were lying and nobody checked on their story. even if they get caught, they have no means to pay it back so they get a few hours of community service and off they go, free to scheme some more.
yes, the immigrants legal or not, and lets not forget gypsies, are a strain on just about every service there is but those services need an overhaul themselves, such as perhaps less bureaucrats and 'admin' and more staff to cure people and catch criminals on the streets. and for gods sake, the standards of education, they are breeding a generation of morons. people have less and less incentive to educate themselves and have a career, after all why bother if you can be a single parent (that's when it pays most, forget about a full family with mum and dad in one house) with a bunch of kids and do nothing for a living, or figure out what disability you may want to fake, and still be better off than those of us who have jobs.
Why did you leave Poland if its soooo great over there,,, no job, no money, was it worth leaving your family for a few little welfare bennys?
i don't think that this is how it works, definitely not why people leave Poland, it's for work not for the welfare. it's just a "bonus" and still not everyone knows how to figure out the paperwork, plus with constant errors with their computer systems, people find themeselves in a situation where they have to pay back a couple of thousand back to the state because they've been paid too much in child or housing benefit. happened to 2 Polish people i know anyway.
now people with Polish flags all over their house and backyard and cyfra+ satellite dishes stuck to their roofs, that's kinda laughable...