>>>I am not familiar with the UK social security system but I presume that, as a citizen of UK, you will be collecting some kind of SS payment.
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>>No I'm gainfully employed (believe it or not :-} )
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>> Do you think if I jump on a plane go to UK, become an illegal resident of UK, I am entitled to start receiving the UK social security system payments when I turn whatever age you have, 62, or 65?
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>>No, you would not be entitled - unless you were claiming refugee status and until that status was refused.
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>>Reasonable people would so No. And I would agree. But the illegals in this country collect. Maybe we should take all the illegals and instead of deporting them, put them on planes to UK <g>.
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>>Are you saying that illegal aliens in the U.S. are entitled to social benefits ?
>>Here I come (g)
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>Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House a couple of weeks ago didn't pass a bill that would have required the state to use a new identification system to deny illegal immigrants access to taxpayer-funded benefits from public housing to food stamps. So they continue draining the state budget.

That seems to imply that if they are *identified* as illegal aliens then they are not entitled to benefits ?

>And I bet that within a couple of years they will be eligible for social security too.