An Emergency Handbrake for UK Welfare
From the Rightsnet site
Tony Blair Institute calls for ‘non-work-limiting’ conditions to no longer lead to entitlement to benefits
Further to calls last year for action to stop people with less severe mental health problems from accessing disability benefits - from, among others, the Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, the Shadow Chancellor, and Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch - and further to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage having said this week that mild anxiety is not a reason to be on disability benefits, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has called for welfare reform in relation to 'non-work-limiting' conditions:
On a daily basis, nearly 1,000 people in Britain sign on to benefits.
As part of the government’s effort to restore trust in the welfare system, we believe it could and should pull an emergency handbrake now that will slow the rise of claimants.
The handbrake is based on a simple idea: there are certain conditions that in the vast majority of cases do not limit an individual’s ability to work, and the default presumption should be that these “non-work-limiting” conditions no longer attract cash benefits. Many of these conditions are those that have proliferated since the pandemic, particularly mental-health conditions.
It is a handbrake that can be pulled now, using secondary legislation ahead of more significant reform later in this parliament ...
The TBI adds that, in addition to there being a moral and a fiscal imperative to reform the system:
This is an emergency handbrake informed by public sentiment. Exclusive polling commissioned by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and conducted by YouGov shows people are starting to tire of a system so clearly unfit for purpose. Around half of respondents believe that some of the conditions currently recognised by the system do not, in practice, limit people’s ability to work.
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It doesn't surprise me one little bit.
Liebour, the Tories and Reform have been saying similar things about their intention to reduce the disability benefits bill.
I wonder what is meant by 'exclusive polling"? and who actually got to vote on these issues.
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As long as the government are offering actual help for those with non-work-limiting conditions, this might nnot be such a bad thing.
If, as i would expect, there is little to no practical, jobseeking help; then this proposal would amount to no more than a cost cutting exercise.
Spending many years economically inactive is a real problem. It destroys self esteem, and may well lead to a worsening of one's health conditions. I really wish I had been provided with real support in 2010, but my pleas fell on deaf ears; I was left to waste my time applying for another job, competing with the able bodied.
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Modertors, please delete my second attempt. If indeed the initial post can be reclaimed from the filter!
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Ending benefit claiming in the UK? Won't happen, and never will, the right seriously needs to shut up.
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if you are constantly bombarded by fraudulent media with fake news and fake numbers no wonder some people, I will also like to think what poll they are referring to, get fed up.
And then you get instances like this one:
These are evil people spreading hatred and fear and unfortunately some people Fall for it
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Indeed, some of the stuff I've been called online and in person because I can't get a job is literally unrepeatable in civlised conversation.
All by people who have jobs but spend all their time on Facebook et al on work PCs when they should be doing actual work.
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Who mentioned 'ending benefit claiming'? I read above about those with 'non-work-limiting' conditions.
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