Paul Bivand
@PaulBivand
Labour market stats wonk: default mode: cynical. Retweets not endorsements and may be ironic. Also @[email protected] and @paulbivand.bsky.social
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03-10-2013 12:52:06
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New report out today by Institute for Fiscal Studies colleagues on recent trends in health related benefit receipt.
Roughly 2 in 100 more people *at all ages* (16 to 64) are receiving health related benefits today, compared to 2019. Means proportionally a larger change for young people.
My The Guardian story (with Matthew Pearce ): Half a million unpaid carers in the UK looking after frail, ill and disabled loved ones are failing to claim the £4,200-a-year carer’s allowance despite experiencing high levels of poverty, estimates show theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
Sam Freedman It's not a complete irrelevance, in that we should not have a long-term incapacity benefit in effect substituting for an adequate sick leave/sick pay system for lower-paid workers. But the sick note stuff today was about blowing smoke to distract from the real agenda of cuts.
Reminder from Tom Clark of Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysis: single adult families with a disabled adult or child were ~4 times less likely to keeping up with the bills, ~6 times more likely to be going cold, and ~9 times more likely to be going hungry compared to non-disabled families.
“Without data, it’s quite hard to know how many of those people are getting into jobs.”
L&W deputy director Sam Avanzo Windett discusses sector-based work academy programmes (SWAPs) and the need for data on their outcomes with Josh Mellor 👇
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Simon Ashworth: 'Sector-based work academy programmes are a quick and intensive way of getting people work-ready.
We have seen them used particularly effectively in sectors with big skills shortages such as hospitality and retail.'
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation response to the Prime Minister's speech - Iain Porter said:
🗣️'This is an irresponsible war of words on people who already aren’t getting enough support, which the Government would rather not talk about. 1/4
Just to underline Tony's point that UK's low SSP contributes to low sickness absence - x-country relationship looks pretty clear to me.
(UK should become more normal on sickness absence: better protection, and accept this means more sick days taken) economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/wp-content/upl…
Where we do have a big problem tho is rising worklessness. 'Economic inactivity' is higher now than it was in depths of pandemic, and long-term ill health is biggest driver.
BUt as this from Office for Budget Responsibility shows it's being driven by people *already out of work* for more than three years