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New data shows that benefit claimants are trending younger, and suffering more with mental health problems.
Big fear is that this could lead to a post-pandemic cohort of younger workers who will permanently drop out of the labour market.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall is concerned about the 2.8 million people who are inactive.
New awards made to under-40s more than doubled from 4,500 a month before pandemic to 11,500 last year .
Percentage of all new awards primarily for mental health conditions went from 28% to 37% .
More than 1 in 13 of the British working-age population will be in receipt of incapacity benefits.
Internal government analysis of new benefit claims by location suggests rise in health-related claims correlates with the same post industrialised areas that were supposed to be the beneficiaries of levelling-up.
The government is in a race to get the inactive back into work, especially the pandemic generation, but without spending much up front.
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