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dontwannahearittoday at 12:28 PM1 replyview on HN

In the UK since 2019–20, disability benefit spending has grown by 45% in real terms and incapacity benefit spending by 26%.

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/health-related-benefit-claim...

You can argue that nobody is systematically abusing the system but numbers go up. To those paying the taxes to support these benefits that sort of growth looks like abuse.


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squigztoday at 2:25 PM

What might have happened around 2020 that would result in more people not being able to work and requiring assistance?