Only 1% UK workers do not find work within 6 months, the message said

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Only 1 percent of the people who have come out of the workforce for health reasons for six months, although 20 percent want, according to studies that emphasize the challenge faced by the government, reducing the UK’s spiral well -being.

The Institute of Teaching and Work said its conclusions Posted on Tuesday, Showing the need to change financial incentives for the work of patients and disabled, but better support will be more effective than dramatically reduce the benefits.

Only each of the 10 disabled people received help to find a job every year, said the analytical center. His intervention reflects the growing fear among charitable organizations that pressure on UK state finance will lead to ministers to short -term savings due to vulnerable people, not reforms that pay off in the long run.

Liz Kendal, a secretary of work and pensions, will publish overhaul plans for health care and disability for the next month’s spring statement. The purpose of TWIN is to increase employment and reduction in benefits – which has grown by 40 percent in real terms from 2013 and by the end of the decade reaches 100 billion pounds a year.

About 3.5 million AD was still focused on the focus of about 3.5 million. This group, which has grown by a million pandemic, receives £ 5,000 a year than those who have a major unemployment rate without demanding work.

L&W said the combination of financial incentives, insufficient support to return to work and the absence of sufficiently flexible employers “created a trap of benefits.”

Since the pandemic, there has been an even more sharp growth in the number of people who receive disability assistance or personal payments for independence – paid regardless of the status of work for those who face the higher costs of life from their health.

Stephen Evans, the executive director of the L&W, said it would be a mistake if the ministers rushed to reduce and limit any of these benefits without doing more to help people go back to work.

“I worry, this is not steadily reduced costs. People are still fighting there…. In a reasonable world that investing will now pay off in 5 – 10 years,” he said.

The former conservative government planned to restrict the right to assistance, saving about £ 1 billion a year between 2026-27 and 2028-29, which is still taken into account in the office for budgetary responsibility.

Now labor ministers intend to convince OBR that their own reforms can bring at least the same. But preliminary well -being reforms have not repeatedly reduced the cost of as much as planned, forcing the fiscal watchman reluctant to “kill” anything but confident savings.

One of the options that the government is considering – although it would be deeply controversial – it is quite profitable for disability, sending all financial assistance to patients and disabled people through personal payments of independence and redeployment of rules for them.

But ministers in the Department of Labor and Penus are also fighting for at least some money saved by restriction of benefits, go to support the disabled to find a job.

The L&W report states that spending £ 450 per year to increase employment support can bring 4 billion pounds a year in long -term, in the form of lower payments and higher tax revenues.

Evans said this would double the number of employment support and the new initiative to invite applicants for disability assistance quarterly “talk” to discuss their options – and not leave them in state support for years.

The government’s press -secretary refused to comment on the specifics of green paper, but stated that the reforms were aimed at “sick and wheelchairs to be honestly supported and more fair to the taxpayer.”