The growing levels of poor mental health cause the British well-being bill, suggests new economic research.
According to a report by the Institute for Financial Studies (IFS), more than half of the increase in children aged 16 to 64 are claiming disability benefits, because the pandemic concerns complaints concerning mental health or behavioral conditions.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is working on reductions in the social protection budget before her spring declaration, because the Labor government seeks to reduce the invoice by 65 billion pounds sterling for health benefits.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tried to join his deputies to support the move, first on Monday evening, and again during a Downing Street briefing on Wednesday morning.
In the United Kingdom, 1.3 million people are now claiming disability services mainly for mental health or behavioral conditions – 44% of all applicants, according to IF.
The climb accelerates from the cocovio pandemic.
Sir Keir described the current “unsustainable, indefensible and unfair” performance system, discouraging people from working while producing a “spiral bill”.
The expected discounts could fall to independent personal payments (PIP), which provide aid with additional subsistence costs to those who have a long -term physical or mental health problem, and reductions in incapacity services to people unable to work and receive universal credit (UC).
Labor deputies representing the so-called red wall are particularly favorable to the plans aimed at reducing the number of people demanding services, including the deputy of Bassetlaw, Jo White, who declared to the TODAY program of BBC Radio 4 that there was “a moral duty to change the lives of people”.
“It is a generational thing-if families are without work, they tend to evoke their children to exist on the system of advantages,” she said.
“People slide on this low income level, perhaps plunging into the black market, but their aspirations are so weak and the communities do not change.”
Tackling this problem by changing the social protection system “is absolutely critical”, argued White, because to “get people out of poverty … they must be in work”.
But a large number of work colleagues are unhappy. Nottingham East deputy Nadia Whittome told the BBC that her party “was wrong on this subject” and suggested “tax super-rich” as an alternative.
“We cannot go back” to the “story of the strict against skiets”, she said, adding “we should not place this burden on disabled people who have already brought the weight of 14 years of austerity and we can make different political choices.”
When asked if she rebelled on the issue, Whittome said: “I was on these advantages – my mother had to stop working when I was a teenager to take care of me.
“I represent the disabled, we all do it, and we hear all their stories every day and how much they are afraid of this and what difference these payments make in their lives.
“I can’t look at my constituents in the eye, I can’t look my mom in the eye and support him.”
Many labor deputies who spoke to the BBC have declared that they had agreed many people currently on disability benefits could work and should.
But they feared that the plans of rumors of the government, such as the freezing of personal independence payments, would punish all those with disability benefits, including those who have serious disabilities who could never work.
It would be “unforgivable,” a deputy for the BBC told.
Another said that making access to disability payments more difficult was “not what the Labor Party should be”.
“It is our DNA itself that work was created to withdraw people from difficult circumstances,” they said.
“The government must stop talking about all those who are in disability benefits as if they were all the same because they are not,” said another.
The IFS has provided that the social protection bill will increase to 100 billion pounds sterling before the next general elections.
Exploring the reasons for the climb, which has “accelerated” from the pandemic, the researchers said that the United Kingdom was an aberrant value compared to other countries, none of which experienced the same level of post-country increase in allegations of healthcare services.
Researchers have found a particularly rapid growth in new allegations of disability benefits for spectrum allegations of the learning and autistic spectrum disorder.
There was also evidence of an increase in levels of serious mental health problems.
There is an increased mortality rate among people of the working age, due to “death of despair” – either by suicide, alcohol or drug abuse – and such deaths are much more likely if a person suffers from a mental illness.
The secretary general of the Union Congress (TUC), Paul Nowak, said that the well-being of well-being for disabled “would only make current challenges aggravate”.
He urged the work of not cutting Pip, which, according to him, allows many disabled people to access work rather than relying on social benefits, but he supported reforms to a “unique approach” to the one that provides support for tailor -made employment.
“Unions share the government’s ambitions to improve the country’s health and help more people with good quality work,” he said.
“A major lesson in conservative years is that austerity has damaged the health of the nation – we must not redo the same mistake.”
