tax payer is being took for a ride
Nov 25, 2014 9:24:05 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2014 9:24:05 GMT
Tax credits 'turned UK into a honeypot for EU immigrants': Worker on minimum wage could receive additional £330 a week
•Open Europe figures show taxpayers are subsiding low-wage migrants
•Worker from Spain coming to Britain will see weekly wage go up nearly half
•New arrivals from Bulgaria will increase their pay by 250 per cent
•Tax credits introduced by Brown to top up incomes of low-earning families
The true scale of tax credit benefits for EU migrants to Britain is revealed today – amid warnings that it is turning this country into a ‘honeypot nation’.
Figures published last night by the Open Europe think-tank make clear how taxpayers are subsidising low-wage migrant workers.
A migrant worker with two children earning the minimum wage sees their basic income of less than £200 a week propped up with an additional £330 in tax credits and other benefits.
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