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Only 1 percent of workforce people find a job within six months for health reasons, although 20 percent want, according to a study that emphasizes the challenge that the Government faces in reducing the Spiral Care Act in the UK.
The Institute of Learning and Work said his discovery, Posted on Tuesday, They showed the need to change the financial incentives to the sick and disabled people to work, but this better support would be more effective than the sudden reduction of benefits.
Only one of 10 disabled people received help finding a job each year, Think-tank said. His intervention reflects the growing fear among charitable organizations that the pressure on public finances in the UK will list ministers to short -term savings at the expense of vulnerable people, not reforms that would be paid in the long run.
Liz Kendall, Minister for Labor and Pension, will publish plans for overhaul for working fees for health and disability before the spring statement next month. The goal of twins is to increase employment and reduce consumption to benefit – which realistically increased 40 percent of 2013 and on the road is £ 100 billion a year until the end of the decade.
The focus so far has been at approximately 3.5 million people who have received the so -called benefits of incompetence after being rated as too sick so that they can work or look for a job. This group, which has grown from a million people from Pandemia, receives £ 5,000 more than those about the basic rate of unemployed fees, without any request for jobs for work.
L&W said that a combination of distorted financial incentives, inadequate support for returning to work and lack of enough flexible employers “created a fee trap”.
There was an even sharper increase in pandemic, however, in the number of people receiving disability benefits or payments of personal independence – who are paid regardless of the status of work to those who face higher life costs because of their health.
Stephen Evans, the L&W CEO, said it would be a mistake if the ministers hurried to cut and limit any of these advantages without doing more to help people return to work.
“My concern is that it does not sustain the costs. People are still there and fights.
The former conservative government planned to limit eligibility for incompetence fees, saving about £ 1 billion a year between 2026-27 and 2028-29, which is still enrolled in the Fiscal Budget Liability Office.
The Minister of Labor now intends to convince the obvious that their own reforms can bring at least so much. However, previous well -being reforms have repeatedly failed to reduce the costs for as much as it is foreseen, which is why the fiscal guard reluctantly “achieves” nothing but saving safe fire.
One of the options that the Government considers – although it would be deeply controversial – is to completely abolish benefits from incompetence, directing all financial assistance to the sick and disabled people through personal independence payments and drawing rules for them.
However, ministers in the work and pension department are also struggling to ensure that at least some of the savings are saved, the use of use is used to support people with disabilities to find a job.
The L&W report claims that spending of some £ 450 million per year to increase employment support could be saved in the long run of £ 4 billion a year, in the form of lower payments of fees and larger tax receipts.
Evans said this would allow it to double the number of employment support sites and a new initiative to invite the applicant for the inability to speak for three -month “conversations” to talk about their capabilities – instead of leaving them in state support for years.
The Government spokesman refused to comment on the specifics of the Green Book, but said that reforms were aimed at “patients and disabled people who were truly supported to work, while they were more honest in the taxpayer”.
