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    I benefici per la disabilità sono aumentati a causa dei tagli di austerità, dice un importante think tank


    I benefici per la disabilità sono aumentati a causa dei tagli di austerità, dice un importante think tank

    https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/disability-benefits-surged-due-to-austerity-cuts-leading-think-tank-says-5HjdPHx_2/

    di StGuthlac2025

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    1. StGuthlac2025 on

      I’ve been saying this for ages. Things got very tight for people so they went looking for what they could get. Now the genie is out of the bottle and the labour back benches don’t want any reform.

    2. JackStrawWitchita on

      The key part of the article:

      Eduin Latimer, a senior research economist at the IFS and one of the report’s authors, said: “Across four different reforms, we find an **unintended consequence** of benefit cuts – that they lead to more people claiming disability benefits.

      “More evidence is needed to understand what is driving this effect. One result of these spillover effects is that the fiscal savings from cutting non-health-related benefits are slightly smaller than previously thought.

      “These effects will likely also have a long-term legacy, as people often stay on disability benefits for many years. The big picture lesson for policymakers is that changes to one part of the benefit system can shift pressures elsewhere, rather than remove them entirely.”

      So, the ‘short termism cuts’ are now biting us in the arse. Surprise surprise!

    3. mynameisollie on

      I reckon a portion of it is that waiting lists are so long, complications that could have been dealt with turn into permanent problems for people.

    4. Proud_Structure3595 on

      Feature not a bug. Punishing the poor and disabled was known to be the outcome of Austerity but they did it anyway.

    5. ameliasophia on

      Every action has an equal opposite reaction. What did they think would happen? Everyone knows the reason why all these services were brought in in the first place – to create a healthier more productive society overall. Obviously if you take them away again we will slide back. 

    6. JunKazama2024 on

      Im not denying that benefits cuts cost more than they save in the long term but did welfare spending really even surge? We’re spending less per capita on welfare in 2025 (11.13%) than we did in 2013 (11.7%) despite an aging population.

      Incapacity benefits made up around 9% of total welfare spending in 2023/24 compared to 12% in 1998.

    8. EvilTaffyapple on

      Must be so good working for a Think Tank – stating the absolutely obvious and getting paid for doing so.

    9. unbelievablydull82 on

      Cutting services, longer wait times for treatments, mental health services being a joke, and the outcome is more money being spent on disability benefits. It’s as if treating people like an afterthought leads to detrimental effects on their health. Who’d of thought it? Let me guess, disabled people will take the blame, more nonsense of them being scroungers, a blight on the economy etc. all whilst the rich just keep syphoning money out of the economy, and we have a government that is as much use as eunuch at an orgy.

    10. Prior_Worldliness287 on

      We’re way too forgiving. Very very few people ‘Can’t’ work. Sure it’s more difficult for many. But that doesn’t mean they ‘can’t’. And life isn’t fair. We can’t make it fair.

      Apart from the very few. If you want the state to give you money you should be doing work useful to the state. If that’s not in a private enterprise it should be for the benefit of the community. Enforced continuity service.

    11. Physical-Rabbit-3809 on

      Thank you think tank. If you only you could think about solutions rather than just investigate problems so that they can be spat out as news slop.

    12. veerKg_CSS_Geologist on

      You saw this in America first. As regular social supports and welfare were cut, people who flit in and out of welfare were forced to switch to applying for disability, something more permanent and without the option of getting it back should they need it, they just stayed.

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