Citigirl wrote:Indeed, my job requires very specific skills, qualifications and experience. This has been the case for my previous employers here and another country with much tougher immigration system.
As for the benefits system, I suppose people expect a fair correlation between paying NI and benefiting from it. The UK citizens are entitled to benefits regardless of whether they contributed anything.
And nothing you have said addressed the subject of this post, i.e. the service we get from the UKBA in return for the money we pay.
people should not be more entitled to benefits because they have paid in more national insurance. If this were the case then a cleaner who has worked hard all her life would be entitled to less benefits in her time of need that a banker who has not worked any harder but has earned more and therefore paid more in NI and tax.
If you are are a higher rate tax payer why would you need to claim any benefits? Ilt is in any case incorrect that you get nothing back from the taxes and national insurance you pay - they pay for roads, hospitals, doctors, nurses, dentists, teachers, police, the fire service etc, all things that you make use of whilst you are here. If you were to lose your job or have a baby and go on maternity leave you would be able to claim contribution based benefits by virtue of your national insurance contributions. After being here for. 5 years you can apply for ilr and claim all the benefits you like if you are entitled to them-something you will see that many migrants do if you look at the benefits section.
I repeat that i have addressed the title of the thread and suggested how to complain.
