UK owes our citizens unpaid welfare, say Slovakia and Czech Republic

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Slovakia and the Czech Republic are demanding that Britain pay millions of pounds in unemployment benefit to their nationals who once worked in the UK but are now unemployed at home.

In a case that will revive arguments in Britain and Brussels over who has responsibility for social welfare payments to European Union citizens, the Czech labour minister, Michaela Marksová-Tominová, told local radio that Britain still owed about £2m (€2.6m)in benefits for citizens who worked and paid national insurance contributions in the UK but have since returned to the Czech Republic, where they are jobless.

Under EU regulations, the Czech Republic has a right to claim unemployment benefits from Britain for these citizens and £800,000 has already been paid to the country under this rule. Marksová, however, has demanded that the remaining £2m should also be paid.

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Slovakian labour ministry, Barbora Petrová, said Bratislava was also seeking €6.3m (£4.9m) from Britain in outstanding unemployment benefits.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/26/uk-owes-our-citizens-unpaid-welfare-say-slovakia-and-czech-republic

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1. parasitic idea. money for nothing. I visited France, does France have to give me $$? nt