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Originally Posted by Taf
The trouble is that these Romanians can come here on holiday, but can't work except under certain rules... and I reckon a lot won't even consider "work" as their method of income.
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I say as an expirement we should just let whoever wants to come in to come in. give them full benefits, health care and everything.
I spoke too soon.
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Benefits tourists are set to get the green light to come to Britain and immediately claim handouts totalling £2.5billion a year.
According to documents leaked to the Mail, ministers have been warned that restrictions on claims by immigrants are against the law and must be scrapped.
The European Commission's ruling threatens to open the door to tens of thousands who are currently deterred from coming to Britain.
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Britain had toughened up its rules in 2004 when the EU was expanding its borders. The restrictions assess the eligibility of those from the EU and from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
But the Commission has begun legal proceedings against Britain to get restrictions on welfare claims by incomers scrapped.
If successful, the Government would be required to remove its deterrents to benefit tourism, including the right-to-reside test and an additional qualification for those claiming jobseeker’s allowance, that they must have worked for 12 months or more.
Officials warn the bill could be between £1.3billion and £2.5billion a year – hampering plans to rein in welfare spending.
However, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is understood to be determined to fight the move through the courts if necessary.
The Whitehall source warned: ‘This has the potential to open the doors of the benefits system to anyone coming here from the entire European economic area, who may have no intention of working or even looking for work but simply wants to claim benefits.
'We already have enough of a problem managing people who want to come here. But this would open up a whole new wave of benefit tourism.’
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