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Only 1 percent of people who are not of workers for health reasons within six months, even if a cent government wants to deal with the government’s spiraling welfare.
Learning and job institute tells those who know it, Published on Tuesday, showing that the need to change financial incentives for diseases and disabled people to work, but that better support is more effective than the benefits of abruptly than sudden benefits than sudden benefits .
Only one of 10 disabled people received assistance to find jobs each year, said in the looking tank. This intervention reflects the growing fear of disability functions that are subject to Public Finances in the UK, instead of reforms to pay a higher term.
Liz Kendall, work secretary and pension, publish plans to overhaul job health and disability benefits. Twin Teen is to raise employment and cuts of spending benefits – risen 40 percent of the real terms since the end of the year at the end of the decade.
The focus is farther away from 3.5mn people who have received the so-called bad benefits after assessing as ill work or looking for work. This group, which grows a million people since the pandemic, receives £ 5,000 each year than the main benefits of unemployment, with no requirements to seek jobs.
L & W says combination of financial incentives, insufficient support to return to work and a lack of adequate flexible owners “.
However there is a greater sharper from the pandemic, however, in the number of people receiving the benefits of disability, or employment fees regardless of work conditions for their health .
Stephen Evans, Chief Executive of L & W, said it would be a mistake if ministers rushed to cut and restricted eater of these benefits without doing more to help people return to work.
“My concern is, it’s not always cut costs. The people were still there and struggling… In a reasonable world investing a little now pay 5 to 10 years,” he said.
The former conservative government plans to prevent the detection of benefits of unable to prevent, with a year of £ 1bn a year to meeting the office of office fiscast.
Labor ministers now seek to convince OBR that their own reforms can give even more. But previous benefit reforms of benefit often fail to cut costs so intended, making the fiscal guardian who refused to “score” anything but fires.
A choice of government-thinking – whether it’s more controversial – is to scrap the benefits of healing disability for the sick and disabled by personal independence fees, and again to independence rules, and revisit the rules of personal rules for it.
But the ministers of the department for work and pensions are also fighting to make sure some of the money saved by preventing benefits is going to support people to seek jobs.
The L & W’s report argues that the expenditure of about £ 450mn is a year to increase employment support can provide £ 4bn to a taxable tax and higher tax receipt.
Evans said it will allow for the doubling of the number of support areas, and a new initiative to invite the options with options at the end of years.
A government spokesman refuses to comment on the green paper details, but it is said that reforms are intended to ensure “sick people who are supported, while people with taxpayer”.
