England and Wales see sharp rise in health related benefit claims

The number of working age people in England and Wales receiving health related benefits has risen sharply over the past four years, an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown.1

Some 3.9 million people (10% of the working age population) got health related benefits in 2023-24 compared with 2.8 million (7.5% of the working age population) in 2019-20. Every local authority in England and Wales apart from the City of London saw an increase in claims, and the official forecast is for further growth by 2028.

For the whole of Great Britain, real terms spending on health related benefits increased from £36bn in 2019-20 to £48n in 2023-24, …

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