Taxpayers give £20m benefits to Polish children - even if they have never stepped foot in Britain

By Andy Dolan

Taxpayers are funding child benefit for more than 50,000 children of migrant workers - even though the youngsters still live in their home countries.

Treasury figures show that Poles make up the vast majority of the payments made under a loophole in EU legislation.

Benefits are paid to 37,941 children in the former Eastern Bloc country, who have one or both parents working in the UK.

Migrant workers in Lincolnshire.They are paid childSource: The Two Malcontents RSS Feed