Rishi Sunak last week declared it a “moral mission” to reform welfare in the UK, to cut the benefits bill and bring people with health conditions back to work.
A post-pandemic rise of 850,000 in the number of people not working due to long-term sickness was economically unsustainable, unaffordable and unfair on taxpayers, the prime minister said — as well as fuelling migration.
In Sunak’s telling, this crisis in workforce health is at least partly due to a “sick note culture” in which young people are “over-medicalising” everyday anxieties, disability benefits are being “misused” and too many people offered cash instead of therapy.
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