not entitled to benifits

Dunroamin

annie1975 wrote: »

Oh right. So when people come here from other country's they dont get money to live on, housing benefit,tax credits,etc,etc.
Didn't know you could live off fresh air?

Mostly they get jobs; that's why they come.

clemmatis

annie1975 wrote: »

Oh right. So when people come here from other country's they dont get money to live on, housing benefit,tax credits,etc,etc.

It depends. Europeans (who will have paid contributions in their own country) are entitled to income-related benefits once they have been here working and paying tax and registered for 3 months (except that certain Eastern Europeans have to be registered here for 12 months before they can claim).

Tia123

Op you never heard of 'no recourse to public funds'??

Dunroamin

Tia123 wrote: »

Op you never heard of 'no recourse to public funds'??

They don't tend to use the expression in the Daily Mail!

poppy10_2

annie1975 wrote: »

Oh right. So when people come here from other country's they dont get money to live on, housing benefit,tax credits,etc,etc.

No, they don't. Here you go.

Asylum seekers – ie persons awaiting a decision on an asylum application – are not entitled to mainstream non-contributory social security benefits including income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income Support and Housing Benefit.

They may be eligible for accommodation and/or financial support from the UK Border Agency. Accommodation (if provided) is not paid for by the local council. Asylum seekers do not jump the queue for council housing and they cannot choose where they live.It is nearly always ‘hard to let’ properties, where other people do not want to live.

Cash support for asylum seekers is less generous than social security benefits: typically a single person aged 18 or over receives £36.62 a week.

“Refugees” – ie asylum seekers whose application for asylum has been successful – are able to claim social security benefits and tax credits on the same basis as UK nationals, but may find it difficult to gain entitlement to contributory benefits since these depend upon the person having a sufficient contribution record.

It is unlikely that a person who has arrived in the UK recently and who is working – legally or otherwise – will have built up a sufficient NI contribution record from their work here to gain entitlement to contributory benefits such as JSA and ESA.

jizzler

Dunroamin wrote: »

I'm not sure why you feel it necessary to say that you're "born British" - do you expect to get a bonus for that?

Wake up & smell the coffee please

jizzler

Dunroamin wrote: »

Mostly they get jobs; that's why they come.

and there are alot that sell the big issue and do busking on the streets.

annie1975_2

The foreigners being paid £2billion in benefits a year including
371,000 on the dole (and 5,000 claiming £42m in illegal handouts)
DWP fraud probe after 5,000 illegal immigrants claim £42m in handouts to which they are not entitled
371,000 foreign nationals on out-of-work benefits
6% of all benefit claimants are foreigners, study finds

annie1975_2

Dunroamin wrote: »

Mostly they get jobs; that's why they come.

Where do they get these jobs from??If there is jobs out there we shouldn't be letting people into this country to take those jobs,we should be making our people on the dole take them.

poppy10_2

annie1975 wrote: »

The foreigners being paid £2billion in benefits a year including
371,000 on the dole (and 5,000 claiming £42m in illegal handouts)
DWP fraud probe after 5,000 illegal immigrants claim £42m in handouts to which they are not entitled
371,000 foreign nationals on out-of-work benefits
6% of all benefit claimants are foreigners, study finds

Source: Daily Mail

Even according to your hate-filled article, 94% of all benefit recipients are "born british" (as the OP would say). And of all foreign claimants, only 2% were found to be illegally claiming benefits they weren't entitled to. That seems spectacularly low to me.