Britannia Radio

Child Tax Credits

Dear XXXXXB  

Thank you for your letter dated 1st March enclosing Justine Greening's  interesting reply dated 8th February.  

Her reply fully justifies the Mayor of Calais' complaint that it is the  UK's excessively generous benefit system 

hat is causing him such  problems with immigrants illegally camping around his port and city, in  desperate attempts 

to enjoy the honey-pot of UK hand-outs.  

We learn when visiting our daughter who lives in France that, to obtain  any benefits as an immigrant, you have to 

jump through hoops and it  doesn't matter how long it takes for you to supply the necessary data  you will get no 

benefits until the authorities are totally satisfied  that your claim is justified. 

 In our country just imagine an mmigrant from one of the new Balkan EU  states, with six children, able to obtain the 

Child Tax Credits that  the UK taxpayer is funding.  

His family will then enjoy riches beyond  Croesus in his Balkan village.  In fact we do not need to go as far as the 

Balkans, nearer home in this  village, the only family owning a new registration car is on benefits,  not having 

worked since 1975, as he is too thick to be employable, but  having taken advantage every tax credit available

including turning in  his old heap of junk in for a £5,000 discount!  

Our only hope is that Ian Duncan Smith will take a grip of this  exploitation of taxpayers' money and totally 

verhaul the system but it  sounds from Justine Greening that IDS will fall foul of EU judgments,  as is ever the case.  

Regards,

xxxxxxx B