What went wrong with the UK’s welfare system?

Sir Keir Starmer promised to reduce Britain’s “broken” and “indescribable” health system worth the government 65 billion pounds a year and is up to 2030 pounds of 100 billion.

As a result of the sharp increase in incapacity and disability benefit in recent years, drivers are complex and sometimes counter-free. Experts have urged the government to act carefully to avoid unplanned consequences that have previous reforms.

“Disability benefits does not mean that the cost of well-being is coming out,” said Ben Gegger at King College in London. But he added. “Despite all the reductions of the last decade, the cost of welfare in 2024 is greater than 2007.”

Most policy experts agree that the increase in the requirements of incapacity and disability benefit can be attributed to three main reasons.

High cuts to welfare costs have become a central ambition for the workforce The fiscal worldview is worsening Maselief Rachel Reves passed before his spring statement on March 26. He is also under pressure to release more cash for defensive expenses.

But BACKBENCH’s workers and cabinet ministers threaten to rebel against some of the more sharp proposals to limit disability benefits.

The data suggests that the UK is more remote when it comes to health benefits that require almost all comparative countries when it has been declining.

Children aged 4MN 16 to 64, one of 10 people now need a disability or incapacity benefit from 2019 by 2.8 million, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

More than half of that increase is increased from increasing mental health or behavioral requirements. 44% of all plaintiffs quotes mental health as their main condition.

There are growing evidence that mental health conditions are AscentA number of England’s NHS data shows the number of communication with mental health services increased by almost two fifths, in five years to 2023-24.

Experts note that the plaintiffs often have many conditions. The four-fifth of the assessment of mental health assessment in the assessment of the work opportunity also informs about physical health.

Another underlying change is demographic. In recent years, one-fifth of growth can be explained by the aging population of state pension, adding the number of patients and the age procedure.

Still, experts agree that these factors do not only take into account the increase in the price. There are also perverted incentives in the game.

In 2023, the standard exchange rate of unemployment benefits reached a low level of 40 years, according to a formal briefing.

According to JRF, one adult needs at least 120 pounds for the week such materials such as food, utilities, vital items and travel, except rent. But the main exchange rate of the universal loan provides only 85 pounds a week.

Most work requires plaintiffs to prove that they are actively looking for jobs, sanctions if they miss the meetings.

Geger from KCL says people “often terrified of falling into destruction” and are afraid of regular formal tests. This is driving many to search for a higher indicator of the benefits paid without conditions.

There are few evidence that the process has become milder. The share of plaintiffs received after the initial estimate received 52%, and 2023-24 – 54%.

But experts say that the system makes people find a job. “If you take steps to work, it will be held against you,” said Hilla Oze, a policy of prosperity and campaign.

“While the main, people should not be fined, there are practically,” he said, “they are afraid of losing their health.”

Since the epidemic has been a sharp decline in the number of reassessments, reducing the government’s ability to determine people whose condition has improved.

Revaluation benefits emit benefits. Senior economist from the resolution Foundation Louise Murphy said that it was agreed to think about how to help the most generous benefits to work.

The Training and Labor Foundation, the research team, offered to submit “Benefit Passport”, which would allow claimees to return to the status of their previous benefit if they leave in six months.

It also called on raising current working benefits.

Steamer has clearly intended to significantly reduce the cost of health benefits to save some 5 billion pounds in one year.

A number of policy experts have warned against drastic changes in competence, noting that they can create distorted incentives in other areas of the system and are often expected to save less savings.

When the Tory-Liberal Democrap coalition government announced the transfer of live disability benefits in 2012. In fact, this step is only 100 million pounds for budget responsibility according to the office calculations.

Many claim that the way to improve the current system will be the difference between the main rate of the main rate of universal loan and the higher level of incapacitated benefits. But it will not cause great savings.

One cost-spending option would be freezing the pipe so that it did not step forward that the former conservative Chancellor George Osborne thought that was far away. One would have to comply with the criteria of more harsh competence, exclude some cases considered to be less severe, including some mental health conditions. If Caseload has been reduced by 12 percent or 620,000 plaintiffs, then 2030 would create a 5 billion pounds.

“Saving as much as this government wants from the benefits system will be really difficult,” Murphy said. “Refund restriction means that you focus large losses into a fixed group of people. It’s a high risk job. “