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If your State Pension is based on your National Insurance Contribution record you can live anywhere in the world and receive it. It is only if it based on your means/income that you would have to be resident in the country you are claiming it from.
 

UK gains £20bn from European migrants, UCL economists reveal...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/05/eu-migrants-uk-gains-20bn-ucl-study

The study says:
European migrants made a net contribution of £20bn to UK public finances between 2000 and 2011. Those from the original 15 EU countries, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, contributed 64% – £15bn more in taxes than they received in welfare – while east European migrants contributed 12%, equivalent to £5bn more.
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How about the cost of the burden to the NHS - Schools - Housing etc we are only a tiny island - on Question time a lady in the audience recons free movement to Spain to live took her on a vigourous route of form filling to prove she could afford to live there????
 
Joey66 said:
How about the cost of the burden to the NHS - Schools - Housing etc we are only a tiny island - on Question time a lady in the audience recons free movement to Spain to live took her on a vigourous route of form filling to prove she could afford to live there????
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if they come back after living over there for over a certain time, even if they have paid tax all there working lives . they get nothing for six mths when they return and are moniterd to see if family can support them, thats if they have any,
Before they get a penny, and as they are no longer resident in the uk find it hard to see a doctor ect this country is a mess.
 

Joey66 said:
How about the cost of the burden to the NHS - Schools - Housing etc we are only a tiny island - on Question time a lady in the audience recons free movement to Spain to live took her on a vigourous route of form filling to prove she could afford to live there????
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I'm working from memory so may be wrong, but I think migrants disproportionately come to Britain minus a family, so the cost on the NHS and schools is minimal. That, coupled with the lower number of retirees, is probably why they contribute more in taxes than they consume in state services.
 
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if they come back after living over there for over a certain time, even if they have paid tax all there working lives . they get nothing for six mths when they return and are moniterd to see if family can support them, thats if they have any,
Before they get a penny, and as they are no longer resident in the uk find it hard to see a doctor ect this country is a mess.
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Yeah, I saw that a while back. Full NI contributions paid up (plus however many thousands in tax over the years), hardly any claims on "the system" and I still have to qualify if I want to come back to my own country?

I agree with you that the country's in a mess (it's one reason I'm not there) and that politicians are catering to whoever pays the most and not what their constituents (whether they be left or right) are looking for. As somebody who is more left than right there would be no electoral option for me anyway.
 
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