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Positive. Home | Mail Online. Negative. Polish migrants living in Britain claiming £21m in child benefits for children left behind. By MATTHEW HICKLEY Last updated at 08:56 29 January 2008 Britain's taxpayers are forking out more than £21million a year in child benefit for youngsters living in Poland, official figures reveal. A loophole in EU regulations means migrants from other EU countries who are seeking work in the UK can claim state handouts for children they have left behind in their home countries. The total benefits bill for the Treasury is likely to be closer to £50million a year when other Eastern European countries are included. In addition, ministers refuse to reveal how much more is being paid out in tax credits. Britain's child benefit payments of £941 per year for a first child or £629 per year for younger siblings are far higher than the equivalent paymentsin Eastern European states that are new EU members.
The Polish benefits system, for example, pays a maximum of around £160 per year in child benefit. The figures show that the number of claimants is soaring. Scroll down for more... Polish immigrants take £1bn out of the UK economy. By JAMES SLACK Last updated at 01:08 28 June 2007 Polish immigrants sent home almost £1billion in the first three months of this year, it has been revealed The cash taken out of the UK economy would otherwise have been spent in shops, restaurants and other businesses here. The figures, compiled by the National Bank of Poland, showed that £1.1 billion was sent back from Western Europe to family members living in the former Eastern Bloc country since January.
More than three-quarters of the total is thought to be from Britain, where the majority of Polish migrants moved following the expansion of the EU in This means that the total siphoned out of the UK economy is somewhere between £825 million and £1 billion - a rise of around a quarter on the same period last year . It is the equivalent of up to £2,500 sent home by each one of the 400,000 Poles living in Britain. Scroll down for more "It has to raise question marks over whether there will be an employment effect here.