SICKNESS benefit claimants are £2,500 better off each year than full-time workers, a study reveals.
The economically inactive who claim Universal Credit with average housing benefit and Personal Independence Payments can receive £25,000.
PATory leader Kemi Badenoch will hit out at how one in four pounds of income tax will soon be spent on sickness and disability benefits[/caption]
That compares with £22,500 that those on the National Living Wage take home after paying their taxes, the Centre for Social Justice said.
It came as the Government’s watered-down welfare reforms made it through the Commons last night despite 47 Labour MPs voting against it.
Meanwhile, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will today say Britain is sitting on a “ticking time bomb” of welfare dependency that could collapse the economy.
She will be hitting out at how one in four pounds of income tax will soon be spent on sickness and disability benefits.
Her proposals will include bringing back face-to-face assessments on welfare claimants to ensure proper checks and medical evidence needed by assessors to stop abuse.
She will also limit benefits to foreign nationals suggesting tightening mental-health related claims like anxiety could save £9 billion.
She will say: “It is not fair to spend £1 billion a month on benefits for foreign nationals and on handing out taxpayer-funded cars for conditions like constipation.
“We should be backing the makers – rewarding the people getting up every morning, working hard to build our country.
“Our welfare system should look after the most vulnerable in society – not those cheating the system”.
She will add that it’s time to “stop Britain becoming a welfare state with an economy attached”.
She will blast both the PM and Mr Farage for being prepared to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Taking aim at farage she will warn he’s “not finished yet” on benefits giveaways.
Ms Badenoch will say: “Nigel Farage pretends to be a Thatcherite Conservative but really, he’s just Jeremy Corbyn with a pint and a cigarette.
“On welfare he shows his true colours – promising unaffordable giveaways with no plan to fix the system.”
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