The ministers, faced with potential reductions of billions of pounds in the social protection budget, announced its intention to use 1,000 work coaches to help long -term unemployed in work.
The coaches are already used by employment centers, but will be redeployed to focus on the fight against economic inactivity, said the Ministry of Labor and Pensions (DWP).
He said the staff would provide personalized and “intensive” support for thousands of sick and disabled people.
But the Resolution Foundation, a reflection group focused on low income, said that only a small percentage would actually find a job.
Coaches will provide tailor -made employment support for health benefits related to health and help them access CV writing and interview techniques, the government said.
Ministers hope that moving thousands of people in jobs will help them unlock the benefits of labor and reduce the cost of health and disability benefits.
But the Resolution Foundation said that only about 3% of hundreds of thousands of people likely to lose payments of benefits were likely to find a job.
In a report entitled Supply of non-delivery, the researchers argue that the causes of the increase in social protection costs include the older and more sick country and that even if the ministers want rapid financial cuts, truly effective reforms will take time to deliver.
The government has described the 1,000 work coaches redeployed as a “payment” on the plans aimed at revising employment support, which should be revealed in a few weeks.
The current system fails to intervene early enough to prevent people from becoming unemployed and lack the opportunities to support their return, said the DWP.
It has become “defined by bad experiences and low confidence among many people who use it,” he added.
Some 2.8 million people are economically inactive due to long -term disease, the ministry said.
Last year, the government spent 65 billion sterling pounds in sickness benefits – an increase of 25% over the year preceding the cocovid pandemic. This figure should increase to around 100 billion pounds sterling before the next general elections.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves assigned several billion pounds to discounts of procedural spending on well-being and other government services before the Printemps Declaration.
The secretary of work and pensions, Liz Kendall, said that the “broken” social protection system that work had inherited was “sick and disabled people is bad for the taxpayer and retain the economy”.
“For too long, sick and disabled people have been informed that they could not work, denied support and have been locked up jobs, with all the advantages that good work brings,” she said.
“But many sick and disabled people want and can work, with the right support.”
The selected figures published in a survey for the government suggest that 44% of people with disabilities and those who have a state of health in the United Kingdom do not trust the DWP to help people reach their full career potential.
According to the survey, the same proportion believes that the DWP does not provide sufficient support for those who are not due due to disability, poor health or a long -term health problem.
Some 5,002 people were questioned by Ipsos in October, including 1,705 who described themselves as having a long -term state of health or a handicap that affected their ability to carry out daily activities. The DWP said the data would soon be published in full.
