"Polish workers losing their UK jobs in the economic downturn are choosing not to return home but to stay and take advantage of the generous benefits system.
Immigrants from eastern Europe who have worked in Britain for 12 months or more can claim the full range of UK state benefits, including child and housing benefit and jobseekers' allowance.
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This is because benefit handouts in Poland are a fraction of those available in the UK. Child benefit for a first child in Britain is £20 a week, compared with around £3 per week in Poland.
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But Jan Mokrzycki, of the Federation of Poles in Great Britain, said many Polish families aim to stay as long as possible to secure benefits because they are EU citizens.
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'Once they are set up they are qualified for benefits and support and as EU citizens they will receive it. So when they're getting that and are financially secure there's no reason for them to go home.'
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Migrationwatch chairman Sir Andrew Green said: 'The Government keeps telling us that eastern Europeans are not a burden on the welfare state. But these reports suggest some families could quite soon become a significant cost to the taxpayer.'"
This Labour government has conspired with big business to increase profits by paying less to immigrants than indigenous labour would demand. Why worry about the British people living on benefits as they will vote Labour anyway along with those in public sector jobs, the biggest increase in employment has been in public sector jobs.
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