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Only 1 percent of people from the workforce for health reasons find a job within six months, although 20 percent want one, according to investigations that underline the government’s challenge to reduce the British Spiral Welfare Laws.
The learning and labor institute said its results Published on Tuesday, showed the need to change the financial incentives for sick and disabled people to work, but this better support would be more effective than abruptly the services.
Only every tenth disabled person received help every year to find work, said the Think tank. His intervention reflects the growing fear in charity organizations for disabilities that the pressure on the public finances of Great Britain will cause the ministers to pursue short -term savings at the expense of protection, instead of reforms that would pay off in the long term.
Liz Kendall, working and pension secretary, will publish plans for revising health and disability services in the work result before the spring declaration in the next month. The Twin goal is to increase employment and reduce expenditure on the services – which has increased by 40 percent since 2013 and will be reached by the end of the decade on a course of 100 billion GBP per year.
So far, the focus was on the approximately 3.5 million people, the so -called incapacity advantages after they were rated as too sick for work or work after work. This group, which has grown from one million people since the pandemic, receives 5,000 pounds more per year than the principle of unemployment benefits without looking for the work for work.
L&W said the combination of distorted financial incentives, inadequate support for returning to work and a lack of sufficiently flexible employers had “created a performance trap”.
However, since the pandemic, however, has increased even more sharply. The number of people who receive benefits for disabilities or personal independence payments – due to their health regardless of work status for those who are exposed to higher living costs.
Stephen Evans, managing director of L&W, said it would be a mistake if the ministers cut and restrict one of these advantages without more to help people return to work.
“My concern is that it did not lower the costs. People are still there and fight. . . In a reasonable world that invests a little in 5 to 10 years, a bit will pay off, ”he said.
The former conservative government had planned to restrict the authorization for the inability to save around 1 billion GBP between 2026-27 and 2028-29, which are still taken into account in the office for the fiscal forecasts of budget responsibility .
Minister of Labor now intend to convince the OBR that their own reforms can deliver at least as much. However, earlier welfare reforms have repeatedly not managed to reduce the costs as much as intended, so that the fiscal watchdog is reluctant to “achieve” as safe savings.
An option that the government is considering – although it would be deeply controversial – is to scrap the inability to steer all financial aid for sick and disabled people through personal independence payments and to re -draw the rules for them.
However, the ministers of the Department of Labor and Pensions also fight for at least part of the money that is met by restricting the services to support work to support work.
The report by L&W argues that the issue of around 450 million GBP per year could achieve long -term savings of 4 billion GBP per year to increase employment support in the form of lower performance payments and higher tax revenue.
Evans said this would make a doubling of the number of job offers and a new initiative to prove the applicants from inability to “discussions” to discuss quarterly to discuss their options – instead of letting them for state support for years.
A government spokesman refused to comment on the details of the Green Paper, but said that the reforms aim to ensure that “sick and disabled people are really supported to work and at the same time are more fairer on the taxpayer”.
