This Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) paper focuses on the changing appearance of benefits in Britain. The rise in UK economic inactivity (which hit nine million in October 2022) is increasingly well known, this paper aims to better understand the picture of those who have fallen out of work and onto mean-tested benefits since the pandemic. With an original analysis bringing together six datasets across the Universal Credit and legacy benefit systems, it shows for the extent to which the number of people claiming working-age benefits has risen in recent years.
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