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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Not necessarily. I believe they might be able to claim Irish citizenship. That's beside the point anyway. If the claimant count in the article have stated their nationality as British then they're British.
There may well be, the item doesn't give figures for ESA. However, the article which you quoted from about the Rotherham area states "Nearly half of the Roma population are children and young people under 18". As such they are not entitled to any work age benefits.
The article is principally about Britons claiming unemployment benefits in other European countries. It is specific to JSA, I assume, because that is the principal unemployment benefit in the UK. I'm sure other figures are available via the DWP site, where these UK figures appear to have come from along with the ONS, should you need them.
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They are going to Ireland because they consider themselves Irish, even though from a legal viewpoint they are British.
The 200,000 figure is from 2013. The number will have jumped since then. Half of 200,000 is still a lot and I obviously have to repeat the FACT that it is only ONE group. You could probably multiply that up by at least a factor of 10 to get a better picture.