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Originally Posted by BenMcr
You have to have contributed before you can it for a child who lives outside the UK according to that. Means-tested benefits don't make you eligible.
For instance you wouldn't qualify if you get Income-based JSA, but would if you get contributions-based JSA.
So you get a benefit that you've paid towards via taxation - what's incorrect about that?
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It was the EU that forced us to pay for children in Poland etc. Child Benefit isn't a contributory benefit, but it's true that to take advantage of this EU migrants have to be working.
This is easy to exploit eg a taxi driver saying that they earn £1 an hour, a scrap metal collector who, on paper, hardly finds any metal etc.
I think that Cameron brought in various rules to combat this (we are unable to treat EU migrants any differently to those living here) eg two child limit, increasing the minimum wage (which the Tories were initially against completely as they thought that a min wage would cost jobs) and a notional income from self employed people after one year for Universal Credit etc.
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Even before we both joined the EU, I believe that since the 1930's the UK & Ireland have had a reciprocal agreement where people are free to live between the two countries. I was also under the impression that a passport wasn't needed.
I'm thinking of visiting Ireland when i'm well enough (it will be after Brexut day) and initially thought that I wouldn't need to renew my passport but, apparently, the airlines sometimes insist on a passport!?