UK’s Institute of Fiscal Studies Reveals a Post-COVID Health Crisis

Written by John O'Sullivan on January 24, 2023. Posted in Current News

A new report from the respected UK Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), which specialises in UK taxation and public policy, finds that sickness benefit claims have tripled among the young in the last year. This is coupled with a “significant rise” in non-COVID deaths. [1]

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) is “a research institute, carrying out research based on rigorous analysis, detailed empirical evidence and in-depth institutional knowledge. Our remit covers the national economic and social effects and influences of existing tax, benefit and spending policies and proposed changes in fiscal systems.”

In the new IFS report, The number of new disability benefit claimants has doubled in a year the IFS, which consists of several teams of researchers, often collaborating with affiliated research associates from other academic institutions, stated:

“the rise in awards is very widespread, with at least a doubling at almost every age. There are particularly large proportional changes for teenagers, where new claims have tripled in the space of a year”

Though no direct mention of vaccine injury from the COVID shots rollout in 2021 is mentioned the IFS admits that:

“There has also been a significant rise in the number of (non-COVID) working-age deaths from late 2021 through 2022, compared to pre-pandemic years.”

In their Conclusion, the IFS authors, Robert Joyce, Sam Ray-Chaudhuri and Tom Waters found:

“From mid-2021 to mid-2022, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of people beginning a PIP claim. This does not seem to be driven by a change in the operation of the PIP system, and nor does it appear closely related to labour market factors. Instead, the evidence is consistent with the rise being driven by a general worsening of health across the population. The number of people with health conditions that significantly affect their day-to-day activities – crudely the requirement for PIP eligibility – started to significantly rise at the same time as when PIP applications increased. Both among the unwell population at large, and among new PIP claimants specifically, we see deteriorations in health that are broad-based across conditions rather than driven by just one or two major culprits.
Precisely why health is getting worse is well beyond the scope of this report, and research and debate will continue as to how – if at all – this relates to direct or indirect effect of the pandemic and the performance of the NHS.
Whatever the cause, significantly greater disability benefit spending looks like it will be one of
many consequences of this concerning societal trend.”

The survey data on the working-age population as a whole show that health has been getting worse, with 9.6% (4.0 million) now reporting that their health limits their daily activities “a lot”, up from 8.5% (3.5 million) at the start of 2021.

The IFS sums it up thusly, “it seems clear that rapid increases in flows on to disability benefits are driven (at least primarily) by worsening population health.”

Read the full report at ifs.org.uk

[1] https://ifs.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/The-number-of-new-disability-claimants-has-doubled-in-a-year-IFS-report-R233.pdf

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