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Britain is giving EU immigrants £1million a week in handouts for children who live abroad.
The payments include child benefit – which was stripped from more than one million British families last month.
The bill is likely to rise still further when Romanians and Bulgarians get free access to the UK jobs market on January 1.
Critics said it was ‘absurd’ to carry on sending money to countries such as Poland when families were losing out at home.
Overall, there are 24,082 child benefit awards currently being made, in respect of 40,171 children, according to a study.
EU citizens are also pocketing child tax credits on behalf of youngsters who are living overseas.
It costs the taxpayer an astonishing £55million a year to fund this system, which is only replicated in four other EU countries. The other 22 nations require the child to be resident in order to qualify.
UK payments relate to cases where migrants have moved to Britain, but left their children at home. When they arrive in the UK, they register with HM Revenue & Customs for the benefit.
The money is then paid direct to them, so it can be sent home. The children do not have to live in the UK or even have visited.
Migrants choose to claim the money from the UK government – rather than in equivalent schemes at home – because the payments are much higher.
In Poland, child benefit is around £5 a week. In Britain, it is £20.30 a week for the first child and £13.40 for every other child.
More at the link.
:81: WTF!
Britain is giving EU immigrants £1million a week in handouts for children who live abroad.
The payments include child benefit – which was stripped from more than one million British families last month.
The bill is likely to rise still further when Romanians and Bulgarians get free access to the UK jobs market on January 1.
Critics said it was ‘absurd’ to carry on sending money to countries such as Poland when families were losing out at home.
Overall, there are 24,082 child benefit awards currently being made, in respect of 40,171 children, according to a study.
EU citizens are also pocketing child tax credits on behalf of youngsters who are living overseas.
It costs the taxpayer an astonishing £55million a year to fund this system, which is only replicated in four other EU countries. The other 22 nations require the child to be resident in order to qualify.
UK payments relate to cases where migrants have moved to Britain, but left their children at home. When they arrive in the UK, they register with HM Revenue & Customs for the benefit.
The money is then paid direct to them, so it can be sent home. The children do not have to live in the UK or even have visited.
Migrants choose to claim the money from the UK government – rather than in equivalent schemes at home – because the payments are much higher.
In Poland, child benefit is around £5 a week. In Britain, it is £20.30 a week for the first child and £13.40 for every other child.
More at the link.
:81: WTF!