Unemployed Britons can now afford to live the high life, getting beer for 35p and a slap-up meal for less than £6 ... but they have to move to Bulgaria.
A ruling in the Balkan state has forced authorities to pay EU nationals out of work in the country the same benefit rate they would get at home.
It means Britons would receive £230 a month, which is more than the £140 -a-month average wage in Bulgaria, and nearly four times as much as the £60 a month that the average jobless person gets.
The ruling came after an unemployed German took a Bulgarian benefit office to the High Court, demanding to be paid benefits in line with EU laws, which the country has signed up to.
Michael Witwer, 30, who lives in the village of Vratsa, won the case and is now getting €570-a-month – equal to £397.
The arrangement imposed by the court is standard in all EU countries, a Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said.
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