Tax Credits: She Told Me All Her Czech Friends Were Claiming These Benefits but I Didn't Think That Could Be Right ; the Influx of European Workers Into Derbyshire has Split Opinion. Some People Believe Free Transit of Workers Is Vital to the Economy, While Some Will Talk of the Strain It Brings. One Woman has Now Found Herself at the Centre of the Debate After Being Asked by One of Her Employees to Fill Out a Form for Working Tax Credits, As Chris Mallett Reports.

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The influx of European workers into Derbyshire has split opinion. Some people believe free transit of workers is vital to the economy, while some will talk of the strain it brings. One woman has now found herself at the centre of the debate after being asked by one of her employees to fill out a form for working tax credits, as Chris Mallett reports.

It was a request that left Beverley Carrington utterly amazed.

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Tax Credits: She Told Me All Her Czech Friends Were Claiming These Benefits but I Didn't Think That Could Be Right ; the Influx of European Workers Into Derbyshire has Split Opinion. Some People Believe Free Transit of Workers Is Vital to the Economy, While Some Will Talk of the Strain It Brings. One Woman has Now Found Herself at the Centre of the Debate After Being Asked by One of Her Employees to Fill Out a Form for Working Tax Credits, As Chris Mallett Reports.

Could her Czech employee be seriously suggesting that she could claim Working Tax Credits and then send the money home to her son?

Apparently she was. And what's more, a lot of her Czech fri...

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