welfare costs

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Dec 16, 2025 • via Sky News

Quarter of Working-Age Britons Report Disability

2.8 million quit jobs market as £76.8bn benefits bill surges

10.4 million working-age adults claim disability, driving labour inactivity and a 6% GDP benefits spend. Mental health claims dominate amid institutional failure to reverse trends across governments. (142 chars)

Nov 5, 2025 • via The Guardian

Nine Million Sidelined: Employers Charged with State's Health Failures

£85 Billion Annual Toll from Record Inactivity Pushes Costs onto Private Sector

A government review demands £6 billion yearly from employers to combat health-driven worklessness, exposing NHS breakdowns and cross-party neglect that leave 9 million working-age adults economically inactive.