Sickness Benefits Cost Surge

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UK benefits bill: Half of claims will be for sickness by 2029

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Half of claims for Britain ’s main benefit will be for poor health by the end of the parliamentary term.

Cost of payments for sickness topping 100 billion a year for the first time for first time.

Ministers acknowledged the rise was unacceptable’ with Rachel Reeves saying more to “get people off long-term sickness benefits and back to work’ was crucial to her plans for boosting the economy.

Budget announced 240 million to pilot local approaches to joining up work, health and skills support.

White paper due before the end of the year on getting people back to work.

More comprehensive reform plans, also covering disability benefits, promised next year .

Labour accuses Kendall of betrayal’ by scrapping Tory plans to overhaul disability benefits.

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