[ianch99]

Originally Posted by j52c

What I sometimes fail to understand is that most polticians say that all the majority of the immigrants pay all their taxes and put a lot back into the economy. Let us face it, a big majority of all immigrants will be on low wages and will claim tax credits and other benefits to make their wages up and will still not pay any income tax due to the increase in personal allowances. Then, most of these will be claiming child benefit for their children back home, plus they will be send the biggest part of their earnings back home to the families there. How is that benefitting our economy. The only person benefittiing is their employer.

Do you have a link for this "big majority of all immigrants will be on low wages and will claim tax credits and other benefits" assertion?

All I could find was this DWP report from last year:

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...-june-2015.pdf

Nationality at point of National Insurance number registration of DWP benefit claimants

These statistics do not provide a measure of non-UK nationals currently claiming benefits based on their current nationality. The statistics do provide an estimate of the number of people currently claiming benefit who, when they first registered for a NINo (that is, first entered the labour market), were non-UK nationals.

Headline figures : As at February 2015, 5.1 million people were claiming DWP working age benefits;
Of these 371 thousand (7.2%) are estimated to have been non-UK nationals when they first registered for a NINo. This compares with 395 thousand (7.4%) in Feb 2014.

As at February 2015, approximately 14% of working age UK nationals were claiming a DWP working age benefit compared to 6% of working age non-UK nationals (at the time they first registered for a National Insurance Number) (resident working age GB population figures based on country of birth 2013, ONS). Claimants who were non-UK nationals when they registered for a NINo may of course subsequently have become permanent residents or British citizens.