"Huge WASTE Of Human Potential" | UK Benefits Bill To Cost £100 Billion

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"Huge WASTE Of Human Potential" | UK Benefits Bill To Cost £100 Billion

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The UK's working-age benefits bill is set to reach £100 billion for the first time this year, driven by an increase in disability claims since the lockdown. Welfare payments, including universal credit, housing subsidies, and disability benefits, are projected to rise by nearly 30% in real terms to £130 billion by the end of the decade, according to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) forecasts.
Estimates from the DWP indicate that the cost of working-age benefits will reach £100.9 billion in the current financial year. Payments experienced a more than 20% surge in the year following the 2020 lockdown, climbing from £78.9 billion to £95.6 billion in 2020-21. This increase was attributed to a rise in claims related to mental health and muscular pain.
This news comes amid an unemployment crisis, with official figures revealing that a record 2.8 million people are not actively seeking employment, citing illness as the reason.
Peter Cardwell speaks with communications officer Reem Ibrahim and CEO of Disability Direct, Amo Raju.
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@mryorkshire3623 6 ай бұрын

I think Lockdown did an enormous amount of damage to peoples mental well being. We are social beings and making it a crime to seek human company was a huge mistake.

@randomcomputer7248 6 ай бұрын

nope

@Sophia-uk4gv 6 ай бұрын

£56 million a week is wasted on immigrants

@truckerfromreno 6 ай бұрын

Many more times that.

@knoxyish 6 ай бұрын

illegals

@ruthcollins2841 6 ай бұрын

Who would want to work in a such woke & biased environment? I'm glad I don't have to anymore and glad I will never have to attend a "diversity" course at all! Phew!🤮👎🤨🤬

@damianbutterworth2434 6 ай бұрын

I had to do a social lesson for electronics. Total woke BS>

@filevans 6 ай бұрын

They offer you a list of about 15 genders on the application forms now

@carlobeny7400 6 ай бұрын

I AM ON UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND LOOKING FOR FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME WORK, AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I FACE IS THAT EVERY VACANCY THAT I APPLY FOR HAS ABOUT 20 ON AVERAGE ALSO APPLYING FOR THAT VACANCY AND THEREFORE THE EMPLOYER WILL GET THE BEST PERSON WITH THE EXPERIENCE OR QUALIFICATION FOR THAT VACANCY. I DO NOT DRIVE OR HAVE A CAR, SO I NEED TO USE NOTTINGHAM PUBLIC TRNSPORT BUS OR TRAM TO GET AROUND.I HAVE NOT WORKED SINCE MAY 2022 AND FINDING IT DIFFICULT AT MY AGE OF 58 WITH SOME HEALTH ISSUES IN FINDING FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME WORK.

@ruthcollins2841 6 ай бұрын

Those employers are trying to fill their tick boxes not whose the right person for that job.

@filevans 6 ай бұрын

Plus they choose immigrants over British people

@truckerfromreno 6 ай бұрын

With all the immigrants we have no chance.

@nicola7917 6 ай бұрын

One thing 8millon a day on immigration.

@Jeremiah59 6 ай бұрын

The NHS needs to be reformed. We need less drugs and more nutrition, detox(sauna), funcitonal medicine testing protocols: the standard blood tests are not up to snuff. I bet we would see a huge increase in health if the NHS gave out liver and onions or cod liver oil as opposed to drugs. Pharmaceutical drugs are just a money spinner, we would be spending less money if we actually cured people and prevented people getting sick.

@clairryanonline 6 ай бұрын

Of course it's increasing, you are letting people into the country on mass who have no intention of ever working. My question is, what happens when the jobless far outweigh the workers? Who's going to pay into the system so everyone can get out?

@KeepingTheFaith123 4 ай бұрын

And that's exactly wats going to happen coz more and more people are jumping on the bandwagon and refusing to work

@terryo5672 6 ай бұрын

IR35 ended my working career in the UK. Tax bill doubled. Refused to pay such huge levels of tax. Now do short contracts as a consultant in UAE. Can’t pay tax for the Government to waste it on benefits to those not genuine, illegal migrants and net zero lunacy.

@MariaLopez-hc2nm 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯

@imbonkers3629 6 ай бұрын

Show me the million jobs 😮lots of sites like indeed keep the job on there when the jobs gone , government used this truck years ago to keep bringing in immigrants, you brought in 750k immigrants last year but e still have a million jobs lies lies lies 🙄

@acquiesce100 6 ай бұрын

Spot on. The jobs need to be listed as a "priority" in the UC system. No excuses. No Games. No going to different job sites and making the user jump through more hoops.

@paulfitzpatrick3090 6 ай бұрын

In terms of the waste of human potential, people who choose benefits in preference to work usually lack qualifications or skills needed for well paid or interesting work otherwise they would probably choose to work.

@beltingtokra 6 ай бұрын

Part of the problem is that even working 40 hours a week isn't enough to pay bills and buy food. Personally i can recommend setting up your own business but it is hard work.

@samanthahardy9903 6 ай бұрын

There are some people with disabilities who want to work but their disabilities prevent them from doing so. Some have to get cabs to hospital appointments because they can't use public transport and free transport arranged by the NHS doesn't always turn up. Working from home may be okay for those who know how to operate a computer but what about those who are not techno savvy? How can they learn how to use a computer when they can't leave the home often (due to their disabilities) to attend a course to learn. I don't think the government has considered this.

@ThePepperford 6 ай бұрын

Destroyed from within

@alexanderthegreat6640 6 ай бұрын

I totally agree with a few people in the comments working full time does not benefit workers at all with how much everything costs so why wouldn't people stay on the benefit system, there actually is no benefit to working apart from having some change to treat yourself. I work 2 jobs Full time and Part time, I do 90 to 100 hours a week and that still keeps me above water to treat myself more than most. the economy has gone down the toilet and tax payers don't benefit at all so I don't blame people staying on benefits. I also see this in the jobcentre everyday first hand how people abuse the system and it's embarrassing how some of them are doing better than us, I seen one guy and I can not make this up, he parked with a Tesla outside Stockport Jobcentre, like seriously, do you know how much it costs to insure a bloody Tesla?

@nicola7917 6 ай бұрын

Open the job center to offer jobs maybe😂

@Xboxfan1986-uq1et 3 ай бұрын

WHAT ABOUT THE ROYAL FAMILY? THE ROYAL FAMILY ARE THE VERY TOP SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFIT CLAIMENTS IN THE COUNTY. NO ONE SAYS NOTHING ABOUT THEM.

@davepugh8368 6 ай бұрын

I'm currently out of work due to a sudden illness last summer, having worked In a variety of skilled jobs over a 33 year period. I can honestly say that it's never been as difficult as now to find a meaningful job. Can't get a sniff at things I've got lots of experience in and at nearly 50, try doing something new 😂 yes there might be a million vacancies out there, but a lot of 8 -10 hour jobs. No good really😢

@theempoweredwomen8167 6 ай бұрын

Hope you find a job soon .You’ve paid into the system and this is why it is there . Some people use it as a lifestyle. Don’t you feel bad and hopefully you get back on your feet soon . This can and does happen to us all .

@TomNoles007 5 ай бұрын

@@theempoweredwomen8167Great comment, 100% agree!

@naminakamura5290 6 ай бұрын

I had to leave the NHS due to disability, as much as the law states that the disabled have rights to work, a lot of businesses get around it because we have to have limited or altered hours and workplace safety put in place. But you're right, if a single mum works 16 hours, you actually get more benefits, I used to do that as I was a full time carer too.

@simisola4280 6 ай бұрын

Amzimg isnt it? Brits being called lazy and fat and all on benefits the last couple of days...yet if you go the UK Gov Unemployment and Ethnicty page...you will find that the white UK group has been the consistently lowest group of unemployed ...and the stats go back to 2004 (and white is still the largest group so go figure) asian as in pakistani and bangladeshi are by far the largest group on benefiis. Dont forget that the population has risen in the last couple of decades as well and with net legal migration reaching 700k last year....who do you think will be paying for the pensions for them and the families they bring across in the future....jobs with wages that people can really live on , would help...how many of these benefits are having to be supplemented by housing beenfits or working credtis...which is in effect, subsidising the employer...cant pay decent wages..you shouldnt be employing folks

@j.d.9848 6 ай бұрын

Ok, what Reen can know about real world and what is her experience (or lack of) to lecture others? Straight from LSE to TV channels and now Institute of Economic Affairs (which is not a real scientific Institute anyway... but a research company for hire)... Also, that million or so vacancies - not real number as many vacancies are advertised by multiple job agencies, better paid positions are already filled but still advertised due to legal requirements, plus a lot of companies have "fake" jobs only to show to competitors and to the market/stock exchange that we are expanding, we are hiring, we are on upward trajectory (sham vacancies)

@lindabrumpton438 6 ай бұрын

The number of people who became ill through long covid and the vaccination injuries, its no wonder that the number people on benefits has massively increased since covid. Disabled people would on the whole love to work, but employers make it difficult for them. Despite laws that were made to try to make it easier for them to go to work. Other employees also make it hard for them, there is no sympathy or understanding given to disabled people. Employers expect them to do exactly the same job as none disabled. If the disabled take more time off work due to illness firms treat them exactly the same way that they treat non disabled. Disiplinary hearings, sending them to see drs to see if they are just pulling sickies. It becomes really hard and worse still if the disability is not easily seen. No the laws have not made a level playing field. Employers pay lip service to these laws while treating disabled people and the laws with no respect.

@akaxboxoddboiock9792 6 ай бұрын

57 work finished me off for medical reasons, now waiting for my MRI scan to find out who is right my doctor or orthopedic surgeon,they differ but the orthopedic surgeon can't get a copy of my 1st MRI scan which the doctor sore so now been waiting over a year, Do they really think I am happy stuck at home.

@lindaayling1645 6 ай бұрын

MIGRANTS BY THE THOUSANDS ARE DOING OUR JOBS....SO WE ARE ON BENEDITS😂😂😂AND ITS GREAT...dont blame us😂😂it's not us that make stupid UK rules

@mchaplin66 6 ай бұрын

i know of a sungle mum who never worked in her life-now has 2 kids paid for by u and goes down pub every night for 3 lagers nd smokes 20 a dy-were paying for these benefit cheats

@chrisspencer6502 6 ай бұрын

The real story Gb news should be telling is the massive government wast like 400 million to send pretty Patel and braverman to Rwanda

@imbonkers3629 6 ай бұрын

@@chrisspencer6502or the billion n billions given to immigrants in tax credits, and free schooling for their kids n free nhs

@petersmith2522 6 ай бұрын

Sunaks wife has just been give 4000 million 😊

@lindaayling1645 6 ай бұрын

Keep paying your taxes boys....

@chrisspencer6502 6 ай бұрын

Yes but how much of that bill is slightly racist pensioners!? Also 80% of people on universal credit are in work. Also it’s not surprising business wants to hire abroad going to university and getting skills is extortion

@anthonywilson8998 6 ай бұрын

1 million vacancies 5 million out of work. No vacancies still 4 million out of work. Still a massive problem So what is to be done ? Growth in the economy needed to increase jobs but why import 740.000 ? They become the workers while we still have 5 million non workers. Can these people not count on this programme.

@timbrown1897 6 ай бұрын

the problem is not just out of work benefits but some just work 16 hours a week and get benefits because of it ban the use of part time work for people on benefits

@stanleywatters8857 6 ай бұрын

Speaking as someone who has worked all of my life and paid in now i cant work due to poor health the peaple they need to be getting at are those who have never worked and have no intention of working i miss working but its just not possible for me anymore unfortunately 👍

@acquiesce100 6 ай бұрын

Im sorry but he's solution is not just the answer The work from home jobs needs to be listed in the UC system and be offered to people as "priority". None of this going to multiple confusing job listing sites. Work Coaches should be listing the jobs for the claimants and UC should have access to the jobs first as a priority. It should be easy and straightforward and it should clearly list the hours and salary. And non of this "must have prior experience" or "must have a degree". It should allow "training on the job". If they don't do something like this nothing is going to work and it will get worse and worse. And there should be a period where they can take a job for a trail without losing their benefits.

@lawrencebishton9071 6 ай бұрын

cant benefits be changed for putin live payments ??? or is that their top up

@TomNoles007 5 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm a thicko, but I've read your comment 4 times and can't understand a single bit... 🤔

@paulfitzpatrick3090 6 ай бұрын

I have masters degrees in politics, economics and management and found l was overqualified for Britain so l moved to Singapore in 1997 where l have resided ever since.

@randomcomputer7248 6 ай бұрын

good ridance

@paulfitzpatrick3090 6 ай бұрын

@randomcomputer7248 that's fine by me if British taxpayers are happy to subsidise the trash of the planet.

@TomNoles007 5 ай бұрын

@@randomcomputer7248Oh my lord, the irony that you manage to spell a two-word comment wrong is vintage buffoonery 😂

@randomcomputer7248 5 ай бұрын

@@TomNoles007 One of the spell checkers, the lowest for of Narcissist.

@TomNoles007 5 ай бұрын

@randomcomputer7248 and you spelled a word wrong there too!! You're on fire my brah! If only everyone was as erudite and open-hearted as you, this world would surely be a better place 😜