Doling Out Our Money: How Jobless Foreigners Who Go Home Can Still Claim Benefits Here

'Jobless Eastern Europeans who return home are being paid dole money by the British taxpayer, it emerged last night. Thousands who leave because they have lost their jobs in the economic downturn could benefit from the handouts. They stem from a little-known EU directive which says that provided an unemployed worker is seeking a job in their homeland, they can continue to be paid benefits by the country where they were laid off. Job centre managers in Poland are even holding workshops and seminars on how claimants can keep using the UK for unemployment handouts.'

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