According to the EU Employment Commission, EU migrants pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits, and jobless EU migrants form only 1.2 per cent of the EU population in the UK.
A Commission spokesman dismissed as “a gross and totally irresponsible misrepresentation” newspaper reports saying there are 600,000 unemployed EU migrants in Britain.
He said this figure included older schoolchildren, students and retired people, pointing to UK Government statistics showing that fewer than 38,000 claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) were from EU nations, 2.6 per cent of those receiving the benefit.
A Commission spokesman dismissed as “a gross and totally irresponsible misrepresentation” newspaper reports saying there are 600,000 unemployed EU migrants in Britain.
He said this figure included older schoolchildren, students and retired people, pointing to UK Government statistics showing that fewer than 38,000 claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) were from EU nations, 2.6 per cent of those receiving the benefit.
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