Saturday, 17 April 2010

Government's aspirations for incapacity benefit

http://www.cicero-europe.com/Research-Analysis/Mental_Health_UK_Economy.pdf

This is a really interesting analysis I stumbled across in a search for
something else.

P11 has this graph.

This is what the recent changes in the UK's state welfare system are
about: the government's aspirations to get lots of people off medical
benefits. Its costing too much. Their aspiration is to get 1 million
people off incapacity benefit in a decade. 40% of people on IB have a
diagnosis of mental illness so there's going to be a lot of people
forced back into work or put on non-medical benefits if they can't work.

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