Joshua lasted
Political journalist
Pennsylvania
Some people in services “take the mickey,” said the secretary of work and pensions, Liz Kendall, because the government is looking for means of limiting social protection expenses.
Kendall was addressed to ITV about an investigation by the Ministry of Labor and Pensions suggested that 200,000 people in services were ready to work if they had support.
The DWP report revealed that 49% of health and disability benefits estimated that they would never be able to work again.
But it also showed that almost half (44%) of people with mental health should be able to work in the future if their health was improving.
Kendall told ITV: “I think what the investigation shows today is that despite all the myths, many people who are currently in illness or disability benefits want to work.”
When asked if people in performances “claimed not not to work”, she added: “Many of them just lost jobs that they are desperately lacking, or really want to be at work once that they will have their state of health under the control.
“So I think there are many more people who want to work. I have no doubt, as there are always, there are people who should not be on these advantages that take the micke must end to that.
The government claims that the number of young people aged 16 to 34 who do not work due to long -term disease and who have a mental health problem reached 270,000.
This number has increased by 60,000 (26%) in the past year, according to the DWP.
In January, 9.3 million people aged 16 to 64 in the United Kingdom were economically inactive – an increase of 713,000 from the cocovio pandemic.
Last year, the government spent 65 billion pounds sterling in sickness benefits – an increase of 25% compared to the year preceding the pandemic. This figure should increase to around 100 billion pounds sterling before the next general elections.
Kendall said that the DWP survey, which spoke to 3,401 benefits of services, has shown the need to reform the current social protection system and encourage young people to work if they can.
The secretary of the DWP said: “There is really a problem with many young people, in particular the cocorated generation, but we cannot have a situation where to do a working day is in itself considered stressful.”
Kendall said that supermarket directors had told him that some young people did not understand that work was “just the nature of life and that it is not stress or pressure”.
The secretary of the DWP is expected to present a political document on social protection reform next month.
Ministers are concerned about the sharp increase in the number of people claiming benefits from the pandemic and the cost for the taxpayer, because the country is faced with difficult economic opposite winds.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said people who claimed long -term disease services should be done to return to work “where they could”.
“The basic proposal you should look for work is right,” he told BBC last year.
“People need to look for work, but they also need support.
“This is why I went out to watch programs where companies support people at work because of a long -term disease.”
