Quote Originally Posted by cheesewiz View Post
I have a workmate who's from Hungary, she is a good worker no doubt about it. After a year here, learn to speak pretty good english and may be learn the system, she get her son and she is a single parent. She went to the citizen advice bureau regarding her status here in UK like the benefis etc..

they advice her to get a tax credit etc..she needs to work only 32 hours or less. so that's it, even we are short of people at work she drop her time and she said to me what's the point of working long hours if she is better off working short hour and get more money
don't that cheesewiz, you've worked here for near 5yrs and cannot claim tax creds etc. but someone from another country can come here, work for a year and they can, my misses had to work 2 years before she is entitled to claim any benefits, and the Hungarian can claim benefits for her kids back in Hungary if she had any