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Poles, Czech republic and Slovakia demand that UK pay benefits to any of their jobless who have ever worked in the UK?
We have already payed 800,000 of their 10 million demand.
Their argument being that any of their returning migrants have payed taxes here while working and is owed unemployment benefits.
What's more is that the EU backs this claim.
8 Answers
- 7 years ago
Ohh jeez the amount of stupidity, ignorance and low IQ in these answers is astonishing. The Czech Republic (not Chechen Simon, lol) is not in Eastern Europe but Central first of all. If someone from the Czech Republic worked in the UK for some time and PAID taxes into the UK system then why should the Czech Republic cover the JSA bill when it was the UK government that collected the payments?
Given the fact that you are entitled up to 14 280 CZK (£409.45) per month for JSA in the Czech Republic and in the UK you get only £284 per month you see that the Czech welfare system is much more generous. And it's generous because you are taxed accordingly if you work in the Czech Republic.
So yes if you work and pay taxes in a particular EU country and move to another country and claim JSA, the country where you paid your taxes is responsible for the bill. It works in all EU countries and it's a fair system so why the UK should be an exception?
Also, looking at the EU statistics there are approximately 15 000 Czech citizens living and working in the UK and approx 10 000 UK citizens living and working in the Czech Republic. So the free movement between the UK and the Czech Republic is RECIPROCAL.
Most Czechs are going to UK in order to practice the English language and gain some working experience abroad which gives them an advantage on the job market in the Czech Republic. But the trend in the Czech Republic is to go to more exotic countries like New Zealand, Australia and Canada on Working Holiday Visa which cost money but it's worth it. It gives us the opportunity to travel whilst studying English and to gain working experience overseas. There are plenty of Germans, French, Scandinavians and Brits on WHV's in these countries too.
So stop reading too much of your low quality British tabloids and get some more educated answers.
- joshLv 47 years ago
This is exactly why UKIP are doing so well and these scroungers who can't even speak English come here and are entitled to absolutley everything like the NHS tax credit and social housing and after 3 months these immigrants can claim benefits which is a joke and now we have other EU countries demanding us to pay them £10 MILLION so the immigrants who return can have a better life while the indigenous population in this country have to suffer from the bedroom tax. We can't even control the numbers that are coming in and we are letting in criminals like that Latvia guy who murdered his wife. This is why I want the UK to LEAVE this stupid EU club and I can't wait until UKIP get some MPs.
@simon
The freedom of movement is not a 2 way street because if I went to Romania would I get social housing and benefits and also tax credit????? No I wouldn't.
- YorrikLv 77 years ago
Anyone who has worked in the UK and who then returns to their own EU country can claim back most of the tax (income tax) which they paid during their stay working here in UK. The Irish have been doing exactly that for decades.
So why do East European states demand we (the UK) pay even more money to migrants from their countries. Nor surprising why UKIP is on the rise and in a decade or less will form a UK government which will rip up the so called treaty which allows the East Europeans to claim such as child benefit while working in UK and their children are sitting at home back there in the home countries - it's just one big rip off of the British taxpayer. Millions of us here in UK are sick of it. We pay benefits to them but they pay nothing to us. They spit in our faces. Countries full of people who don't even know what the word democracy actually means.
- Anonymous7 years ago
ere we Go again since the UK joined the EU it has been More out and abuse in
if the UK leaves the EU and demands all its Unpaid debits back the EU will have a depression
solution UK must leave the EU to prevent Brussels telling the UK to pay up and send all the EU rubbish Back
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- simonLv 67 years ago
As a United Europe we are committed to pay social security benefits and provide healthcare to any person from any member state. Its reciprocal too! It would be the same if any British citizen went to Poland or Chechen Republic we would be allowed free healthcare there and get social security benefits.
In fact those countries were former Warsaw Pact countries and had free health care and Social security long before we had. 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution to be exact.
- 7 years ago
You just wouldn't believe it. Would you?
Go on. Tell me again how wonderful multiculturalism is for Britain.
The EU is grinding this country into the ground. We need OUT. While there is something left to save.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Will the poles/Czech and slovakian government be paying the UK for the scroungers that we have had to feed clothe and house? The free NHS treatment they have had privilege of? Will they hell as like!
Our government needs to tell these mustards to go screw themselves, they have screwed us enough!