Posted 3/15/2024, 8:37:30 PM
Rising Long-Term Sickness Causing Millions to Leave UK Workforce
- 2.74 million people in the UK are out of work due to long-term sickness, with 4,000 more people being signed off daily
- The problem is acute in certain towns/cities - up to 25% not working in places like Blackpool
- 873,000 claimants last year had "mental and behavioral disorders"
- Funding people to languish on benefits in poor towns does not achieve "levelling up"
- The government's "Back to Work Plan" has not yet had an effect - time to confront whether all claimants are truly incapacitated
