Revealed: thousands of Britons on benefits across EU.

[Taf]

14,880 Polish citizens are claiming Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA) in the UK, compared with just two British citizens claiming similar benefits in Poland.

Some 4,880 Lithuanians claim JSA in Britain, while no British citizens at all are on the dole in Lithuania.

The study also found that no British citizens are claiming unemployment benefits in Romania, while 1,040 Romanians are on JSA here.

Other countries with large numbers of citizens claiming JSA in the UK include Slovakia, Portugal and the Czech Republic. In total they have almost 17,500 citizens on the benefit. By contrast, just 261 Brits are on the dole in these three countries.

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[Mr Angry]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

A set of statistics sufficiently selective from a wide cohort to be irrelevant and potentially misleading. A single benefit alongside its equivalents in Europe when welfare systems are very much different across the individual countries renders it basically meaningless.

The only really interesting part is Eire <> UK, however I feel that needs way more discussion as while, of course, Eire are a part of the EU, there are inevitably a number of factors which simply aren't present in other EU countries.

Statistics detailing full welfare receipts would be far more interesting and, I suspect, present a far more negative case, hence why the Grauniad were so selective.

Very Inverse-UKIP.

I appreciate where you are coming from.

Yes, indeed, statistics detailing full welfare receipts would be far more interesting however, on the basis / understanding that unemployment benefits, or a version comparable to JSA, payable by EU countries to those who are unemployed is the comparator for the purposes of the survey then yes, narrow it may be, but it's also probably entirely factually correct.

Interestingly the figures quoted by Taf appear to show that a lot fewer foreign nationals are in receipt of certain benefits than some might be led to believe.

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Not got time to read the article but is there mention of value per claimant? So if all those Brits abroad get £1 per day but we pay £5 per day then we need to export 5 claimants to every one imported to balance the actual figures. This figure could include benefits linked to JSA here but not elsewhere.