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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Steve on January 19, 2015, 11:13:37 PM
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EU countries pay more in benefits for Brits over there than we pay for EU migrants here eeek:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu (http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/-sp-thousands-britons-claim-benefits-eu)
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.guim.co.uk%2Fni%2F1418312656641%2FEU_Unemployment_Datablog_do.svg&hash=c6c4dc7870e58060236e552cab7ed0847a8c3ab0)
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Total BS. I live in one of the countries on that list.They do not pay benefits to UK citizens
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Total BS. I live in one of the countries on that list.They do not pay benefits to UK citizens
Yes of course
Strange that this site says otherwise: http://rome.angloinfo.com/information/money/social-security/ (http://rome.angloinfo.com/information/money/social-security/)
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Surely that graph shows the opposite to the headlines?
A quick tot-up gives more than twice the number of EU nationals claiming in the UK over the number of Brits claiming similar over there ~ or am I missing something?
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Surely that graph shows the opposite to the headlines?
A quick tot-up gives more than twice the number of EU nationals claiming in the UK over the number of Brits claiming similar over there ~ or am I missing something?
That was my reaction from a quick glance at it....
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Surely that graph shows the opposite to the headlines?
A quick tot-up gives more than twice the number of EU nationals claiming in the UK over the number of Brits claiming similar over there ~ or am I missing something?
That was my reaction from a quick glance at it....
And that's what the article says
But it also says:
. . frequently the benefits elsewhere in Europe are much more generous than in the UK. A Briton in France receives more than three times as much as a jobless French person in the UK.