New economic research suggests that the increasing level of mental illness is causing the UK’s welfare bill to balloon.
According to one, those who claim to be more than half of the ages of 16 to 64 claim the benefits of disability because pandemic disease is for mental health or claims. Report of the Institute for Financial Studies (Ifs)
Chancellor Raheel Ravis is working Welfare budget decreases Prior to its spring statement, as the Labor Government reduces the B -65bn bill for precision benefits. Sees
Prime Minister Sir Career is trying to hold a rally to his MPs to support the move at a downside -down briefing on Monday night, and then on Wednesday morning.
In the UK, 1.3 million people now claim to have the benefits of disability for mental health or behavior conditions – 44 % of all contenders, IFS found.
Since the height, the rise has been accelerating.
Sir Kerr has described the current benefits as “unstable, unforgivable and unfair”, which has discouraged people from working by developing a “skering bill”.
The expected deduction may fall on personal free payments (PIP), which helps those who have long -term physical or mental health conditions with extra life costs, and helps to work in incompetence and universal credit (UC) for unable to work.
Labor MPs representing the so -called Red Wall are supportive of plans to reduce the number of people claiming benefits, including a member of the Basetla, who told the BBC Radio 4’s program today that “people’s lives have a moral duty to change their lives”.
“This is a generation thing – if the families are out of work, they raise their lives in the system of benefits,” he said.
“People are slipping at the lower levels as well, maybe the black market, but their aspirations are so low and the communities do not change.”
White argued that by changing the welfare system, to deal with this problem, “is absolutely critical”, because “to remove people from poverty … they need to stay in work”.
But the significant number of labor colleagues is unhappy. Nottingham East MP Nadia Vitom told the BBC that her party was “making it badly wrong” and suggested “taxing the extremely wealthy” as an alternative.
He said, “We cannot go back to the story of Scivers vs. Secures”, adding, “We should not keep this burden on people with disabilities who have already endured 14 years of simplicity and we can make different political choices.”
Asked if she would rebel against the issue, the Whatsom said: “I was on these benefits – when I was teenage to take care of me, my mother had to stop the work.
“I represent people with disabilities, we all do, and we all hear their stories every day and how frightened they are, and how these payments make a difference in their lives.
“I can’t see my ingredients in the eye, I can’t see my mother in the eye, and can’t support it.”
Many Labor MPs who talk to the BBC have said that they have agreed that many people can work on the benefits of disability at this time and they can work.
But they feared that the government’s rumors, such as freezing personal freedom payments, would punish all persons related to the benefits of disability, including severe disabled people who could never work.
One Member of Parliament told the BBC that it would be “unforgivable”.
Another said that access to disability payments was more difficult to “be about the labor party”.
“This is our very DNA that a laborer was created to remove people from difficult situations,” he said.
Another said, “The government needs to stop talking about everyone who is on the benefits of disability as they are all the same because they are not.”
The IFS predicted that the welfare bill would increase to $ 100 billion ahead of the next general election.
Looking for the reasons behind this rise, which has “fast” since the outbreak, researchers said that the UK is an outlet compared to other countries, none of them have seen the increase in the pandemic disease after posting health -related claims.
Researchers have a particularly rapid growth in claims of learning disability and autism spectrum claims for new disability.
There is also evidence of increasing levels of severe mental health problems.
There is a sharp rate of death in people working due to “frustration deaths” – either by suicide, alcohol or drug abuse – and if one has mental health disease, such deaths are very likely.
“Reducing welfare for people with disabilities will simply” worsen the current challenges, “said Paul Novak, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).
He urged the labor not to cut the pip, which he said, which enables many disabled people to reach work rather than relying on the benefits, but they supported the “all of a sizing approach” to those who provide proper employment support.
“Trade unions share the government’s ambitions to improve the country’s health and help more people in good quality work,” he said.
“One of the major lessons of the Tory years is that efficiency hurts the nation’s health – we should not make the same mistake again.”
