Look I vote Tory, I buy the Daily Mail and I am not afraid to speak the truth. No one is making these stories up, there is a major rip-off going on and you can't fail to notice it. More than a million pounds a month in child benefit is going to youngsters who live in Eastern Europe. The money is being paid out to 14,000 Eastern European nationals who claim for offspring living in their home countries.

The Government has acknowledged that the payments - funded by British taxpayers - are going abroad.Even larger sums in tax credits for children are thought to be paid to recent migrants from Eastern Europe but ministers insist that total figures are 'not available'.


More than a million pounds a month in child benefits is going to youngsters who live in Eastern Europe. So why is Gordon Brown sending thousands of pounds of benefits every week to children who do not live here and who may never have even visited the UK?



According to figures, nearly 70,000 from the eight Eastern European countries new to the EU are claiming child benefit, a universal payment made to anyone with offspring.
This is worth £18.10 a week for the first child in a family and £12.10 a week for other children.

If all the 14,000 claimants in question had just one child, the total they received would be £253,400 a week - or more than a million pounds a month.But these payments may be dwarfed by the amount paid out in tax credits, which could produce £100 a week to a migrant worker with a child or children in another EU country.

Knowledge of the benefits system is now widespread among Eastern European workers.The biggest Polish newspaper in Britain, the Polish Express, last week ran a story headlined Benefit Hunters which claimed:"The longer we are in Britain, the more rights to social security we are given and the better we are taking advantage of them."

It gave advice on how to claim and described the case of one Polish migrant who was given a two-bedroom house shortly after applying to a housing association, without any need to join a waiting list.
The paper said: "The formalities concerning an application for social security are extremely simple. Do not delay in submitting an application."

Wake up and smell the roses gentlemen.