Over the past four years there has been a large increase in spending on healthcare-related benefits in Britain, from £36 billion in 2019-2020 to £48 billion in 2023-2024. expects this expenditure to rise further to £63 billion by 2028-2029.
According to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, many of these new claimants are younger and the number of new benefits paid to under-40s has more than doubled, from 4,500 per month in 2019-2020 to 11,500 in 2023-2024. Current new claimants are also more likely to make a claim for mental health conditions, including learning difficulties: the proportion of all new claims mainly for mental health conditions has risen from 28% to 37% over the same period, an increase from 3,900 claims per month to 12,100 per month.
We’d like to hear from people under 40 in the UK who have been unable to work due to long-term illness, and how their situation has affected them.
We would also like to hear from UK businesses that employ young people who have been unable to work for more than four weeks.
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Share your experience
Tell us if you are a young person from the UK who has been unable to work due to long-term illness, and how this affects you. Or tell us whether you have employed people under the age of 40 in the UK who have been ill for more than four weeks, and what impact this may have had on your business.