![]() “There is no reason why many of these people on these benefits should not be in work. “They should be focusing on improving productivity by a greater increase in technology, and by training and getting back into work these people on sickness benefits. He said: “Companies should now be ending their addiction to cheap labour. The former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan-Smith, who co-founded the CSJ, said the UK needed to concentrate less on bringing in workers from abroad and more on getting British people on sickness benefits back into the labour market. Meanwhile, benefit payments increased last month by 10.1pc, in line with last September's inflation figure. Hundreds of thousands of Britons have left the workforce because of long term illness. Growth in the UK has stalled, with Britain and Germany the only economies in the G7 that are yet to recover to their pre-pandemic size. Ministers privately predict that immigration numbers are unlikely to fall for several years and there is growing concern at the highest levels of government about how to get more British people back into work. Last week she used a speech at a prominent conservatism conference to call for more British HGV drivers and fruit pickers to be trained to meet demand in the job market. ![]() It came as the Prime Minister announced that Suella Braverman – a leading figure on the Conservative Party’s right wing who has previously called for net migration to be reduced below 100,000 – would remain Home Secretary, after he decided not to sack her over a speeding fine row. The Cabinet is split over whether priority should be given to meeting a post-Brexit promise of reducing migration, or promoting growth by ensuring there are enough people in the job market regardless of where they are from. Their benefits cost the taxpayer between £22.5 billion and £26.5 billion every year, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).īritain's growing worklessness crisis comes as official figures on Thursday are expected to show net migration has soared to record levels of between 700,000 and 1 million. These claimants are not required to attend work-related interviews or training because they have been assessed as being too ill for work. ![]() The numbers have surged by half a million since Covid, when face-to-face health checks were replaced with remote assessments, official data shows. ![]() Nearly 4 million people are being paid jobless benefits without ever having to look for work following a surge in claims of mental health issues and joint pain during lockdown.Īround 3.7 million of the 5.2 million people currently claiming out of work benefits have been granted an exemption from finding a job, meaning that taxpayers face bankrolling their benefits indefinitely. ![]()
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