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Can I just say that this is possibly the most important bit of research I’ve seen so far.

FINALLY an evidence based assessment of sickness and disability benefits over the past few decades. I urge anyone reading it to pull up a comfy seat, make a cuppa and really consider the implications of this article.

Then, tweet it, share it, link it, explain it and generally make sure everyone knows about it.

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I’m not wishing to disagree with your key point – indeed, I welcome people looking at the data instead of the rhetoric. The only person I know on DLA is my dad, and I know for sure that he can’t work. If millions of people are faking it, I’ve not met them.

However, you choice of data for, and analysis of, Graph 1 isn’t working for me.

1. Although the overall number/percentage of claimants in the sample has fallen, the regional variations appear to be broadly similar at both ends of the chart relative to the total. So yes, there are less claimants.. but the regional variations are as stark as they always were.

2. Whilst the sample is based on a group with a high level of claimants, for understandable reasons, it’s a relatively narrow group of people – and the age and gender means it picks up exactly the people who were shunted onto the benefit for the reasons you cite. It obviously makes sense that the sample would change over time. Although there has been an ongoing decline in the heavy industry that many of these people would have been employed in, there was obviously a peak of that happening in the 80′s and 90′s, meaning that if that did lead to increased benefit claims then the peak for the sampled age group would likely have been the mid-late 90′s, and it could only fall from then on as there would not be the new claimants to replace those who fall out of the age range in the other direction. Look at the North East, Yorkshire and the East Midlands… three areas to have lost significant mining industries.. it went first in the North East, then Yorkshire, and then (a fair while later) in the East Midlands. Is it a coincidence that the line for the North East falls the fastest, then Yorkshire, then the East Midlands? Or is it just reflecting where the pain came first.

The point, there, is that looking at the ‘unwinding’ of a particular feature of DLA, using a sample peculiarly well suited to that, doesn’t enable us to draw conclusions about the system as a whole. If you want to bust a myth then you can’t cherry-pick data and whilst I’m not saying that you did, I am saying that it’s pretty easy to accuse you of doing so. Why haven’t you used data for the whole population? Or at least provided one or two alternative sample groups to illustrate that the pattern you note is not just specific to men aged 55-59? How do I know that if I look at the whole population I won’t see flat lines because the rates of claim have gone through the roof amongst women aged between 40 and 45?

Apologies for length. And please don’t regard this as tory trolling.. as I’m not a tory, and I don’t live under a bridge and menace goats for fun.

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Lee – no suspicion of trolling – the points you raise need to be addressed.

On the first point about regional disaparities,the pattern is definitely one of convergence (not just for the group in the chart, but for all age/gender groups). It may not be visually clear from the chart but there are various statistical measures which tell us whether disparities are increasing or reducing. The standard deviation is one: it provides a measure of how far various groups (regions in this case) are from the overall average for all groups. For the age/gender category in the chart, the standard deviation reduced by 51% over the period, so about half the regional disparity has been eroded over this period. The pattern across age/gender groups is that the bigger the disparities at the start (1999) the greater the reduction in the standard deviation. The coefficient of variation shows the same pattern.

On the second point, about possible suspicion of cherry-picking examples, the results in this post are drawn from an analysis of all age/gender groups. Obviously it’s not possible to present all of this in a single post (there will be an article later this year), so I used the male 55-59 group for the chart. But the point it exemplifies holds generally: groups which had relatively high rates of receipt in 1999 have seen very big falls in IB receipt. Groups with the lowest rates of receipt have seen smaller falls. (The only exception is men and women in the 35-44 age band who have seen very small rises – minor compared to the big falls for men aged 45 and over).

I did want to stress the impact of deindustrialisation: I think it’s hard not to feel that the low public confidence in IB/ESA – the sense that this is not a benefit which does what it say on the tin- is rooted in the way sickness benefits were used by government to manage industrial change in the 80′s and 90′s. A lot, but by no means all, of the reduction in rates of receipt is due to a generation of workers who lost their jobs in middle age in the 80′s and 90′s moving into retirement. So there was a big historical change associated with deindustrialisation and IB, the impacts of which have been receding for some time. But what doesn’t seem to have happened, contrary to the hypothesis you suggest, is any compensating increase in IB receipt among other age/gender groups. This should be clear when the full analysis is published- but given the media attention today, I thought it was worth putting some of the results out in advance.

I’m rather concerned by the logic regarding DLA and the assumption that this necessarily leads to someone being less able to work than someone not in receipt. Taking my own case as an example, I’m in the ESA WRAG, but not in currently in receipt of DLA. I’m probably borderline for eligibility for DLA Mobility Allowance, but it isn’t my mobility difficulties that make it impossible for me to work at the moment, it’s the fact I can’t sit or stand for any period, which wouldn’t fall under either the Mobility or Care components of DLA. Undoubtedly many people do receive DLA as a result of conditions that limit their employability, but many people will be similarly limited without being in receipt of DLA. DLA is a crude measure that doesn’t address many aspects of disability and we should be cautious about relying on it as an indicator for or against either employability or the level of support someone is likely to need due to disability.

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Agree that DLA is a crude measure and it shouldn’t be used to divide the IB group up into any sort of can work/can’t work dichotomy, any more than any other measure. Looking back at the piece, the text isn’t clear on this, so your criticism is spot on. At the same time while DLA is crude, it is telling us something about the IB caseload -that on average, the severity of impairment has been rising. There isn’t an easily available alternative proxy measure for severity that I’m aware of, although this paper uses some sophisticated analysis to get at this issue: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/iser_working_papers/2011-03.pdf

Really interesting article Declan – great to here something original and insightful in a debate flooded with dogma and crude assumptions. However, I do agree with the comments of caution about DLA. My experience of working on these issues is that DLA is generally easier qualify for than IB/ESA (though it won’t be for long). I would explain the increase in take up of DLA amongst IB/ESA claimants as being the result of increased awareness of the availability of the benefit (particularly for mental health).

Overall though, I do agree with you that there is a fundamental misunderstanding in Govt about the degree of impairment and disability amongst those on IB/ESA. For me, the biggest issue is that this will mean people are inappropriately pushed and pressured to find work before they are ready and that this will have a really negative impact on the health of those concerned.

I work on these issues for Mind and would be really interested to ‘exchange notes’ if you have the time (t.pollard@mind.org.uk).

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What you have to ask is how and why Labour under Blair saw this as being about work shy and scroungers, we all know the American were angry they could not enter into the British insurance market as they have in Germany and France and other countries, Germany has an insurance based market in which people earning over £45,000 have to find their own insurance for health and also unemployment so the yanks are in that country.

Here we have had under Blair UNUM Provident, which is an American company kicked out of the state who ended up here, and is desperate to target into our NHS market, so of course Blair responded the Welfare state is under attack, and I think everything we had is under attack, NHS welfare, social housing.

Blair then we had Brown, who told us DLA was a waste of money and he wanted to remove it, but hell that’s Brown for you thick as a plank of wood.

So here are my problems I take each day 12 tablets mostly pain control, but also drugs to control my fits. I have no bowel and bladder function, but I’m lucky that my bladder keeps fluid in, so for me to empty my bladder I have to use a catheter up through the penis into the bladder four times a day, if I do not then my kidneys will become painful and sometimes I will need to go into hospital for treatment. My bowel, the wave motion of the bowel does not work, so I have to take drugs to turn the stool into a fluid which means I will have mishaps some times daily.

so what is wrong, I have a lesion of the spinal cord at the L5 causing what is Parapligia, nothing works from my waist down, and no sexual function does not work.

SO I cannot work, oh boy yes I can given the right job, but thats the problem what is the right job for me.

Well I can show you if you do not believe me, I kept the jobs which are providd from my special disablity help.

Scafolding working passing up poles to people, my job center and Remploy felt this would be good.

Painter decorator, I could paint skirting boards.

Self employed passing out brochures.

Self employed charity collection worker, it would be great because people would feel sorry for me.

Long distance lorry driver.

Ok the jobs we are being offered are just the jobs they have on their books, Remploy just use the job centers computers, so if they have nothing then they just tell you to come back.

Remploy had a job listed on their notice board for a office temp, I said to them what about this, they said ok you will have an interview, I never had the interview they told me it would not be suitable for me as I was disabled, of course they have to pay me the full min wage, they employed a young person on the lowest rate of the min wage.

My special advisor mind you is eighteen years of age, she knows a lot about disablity and working.

The fact is this is all about getting us onto lower benefits dumping us onto JSA removing DLA and making life shit.

I know Sue hates anyone knocking her loved Labour, but Labour and the Tories are backing each other on this.

Tom

I analysed the rise in DLA here [http://www.leftfootforward.org/2011/02/rise-in-disability-living-allowance-explained/]. Piece doesn’t conclusively account for all the changes, but it does separate out demographic factors from others. Increased awareness for mental health looks to be a strong candidate factor when it comes to younger people. I’m more sceptical about advancing awareness as the major explanation more widely. Demographic change alone is playing a big role for a start, and there is an open question is whether rising population prevalence of severe impairment within age groups is also at work.I don’t think we have the evidence to answer that at the moment but we can at least say that the standard a priori assumption, that prevalence should be falling with improved population health status, is no longer tenable (see Berthoud’s work cited in my reply to DavidG). There’s just an awful lot we don’t know about disability, much more than people generally realise.

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Sickness / Incapacity benefits info for Call Me Dave… #fb

@10 – Er? No, this is something many of us have savaged Labour on as well.

Anyway; At the very least, the Government should start collecting data on why people are dropping claims. It’s quite simple and would radically increase the value of the data gathered.

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Declan – I’ve been searching for a way to contact you after spotting some of your earlier LFF posts, but I can’t find an email address anywhere so thought I’d try this!

I’m just finishing a PhD on incapacity benefits at LSE with John Hills/Tania Burchardt, and (along with some other young academic researchers) am planning to do some work that tries to challenge the current ESA debates – which is obviously exactly the same aim as you. If you’re interested in having a chat then my contact details are at http://www.benbaumberg.com/contact.htm

(And obviously if anyone else reading this slightly uninteresting comment has the same aims, then feel free to get in touch too!)
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Congratulations-this is very important,useful stuff.Do you have any thoughts or analysis,though,to offer on a related point.It is often implied that the numbers,as a proportion of the working-age population,which are considered unfit for work in this country are disproportionate compared to other nations.Great play is made of this notion.
I understand that those of a similar status in the Eurozone countries,when averaged-out,come to 5.6% of their working-age populations.Whilst here it is higher.Although I calculate that by the time the current system is fully applied to existing recipients,our country will have an unfit rate below 2%.
Which seems remarkably low.But I don’t trust my figures here-could you provide something more authoritative?

@lisaansell Can you share this with him: http://t.co/Req8bjg – This is the reality of disability, while W'mister village is in 80s timewarp

When you sign on sick with your employer, the DWP place you on a list, then as you come to the end of your 23 week sickness the DWP have already started you off on ESA then start your claim, if you have gone back to work on week 21 they would have already sent you the forms , but you could have already gone back to work sign off the sick or what ever, they are classing this as not going forward. For example I was in work and felt ill it was found to be TB, I then had to sign on I was off work for 20 weeks, I went back to work at the end of the twenty weeks but the DWP had already sent me the forms to go onto IB, because I had gone back to work they classed this as not going forward with the claim.

People do not write in to claim IB or ESA now this is done through your sick notes

There is a lot that Cameron and people need to know about benefits and disability and what happens after an incident that through incompetence and wrong or no input in end up with a worse situation. But I think no one is interested. They just want to believe and stick to the stereotypes. Would love to do a simple animation with stick characters that goes through 4 different scenarios and characters as to what happens when something happens and they get sick and show people what actually does happen. If you get better you are lucky it is such a mess many end up worse and beyond recovery. Just a simple animation following 4 stories would help educate every one. I am beyond trying to teach any one today. not one wants to know and is not interested. Even our own. Load of misinformation and little intelligence going about.

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[...] Labour still appears wedded to the conventional wisdom that the large disability benefits roll is down to former workers in heavy industries who were shoved onto the benefit to keep unemployment figures down. They are increasingly not. [...]

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