There are more than 1.4 million people claiming PIP for “psychiatric disorders”, according to the Department of Work and Pensions’s latest figures.
As of the end of April, there were 3.7 million claims with entitlement to PIP, with 39 per cent claiming for disorders including mixed anxiety, depression, autism, mood disorders, hyperkinetic disorder and anxiety disorders.
According to the Department of Work and Pensions’s latest figures, there were 407,000 cases approved for “mixed anxiety and depression”, 62,000 for “anxiety disorders” and 83,000 for ADHD.
While autism and hyperkinetic disorders, such as ADD or ADHD, are not considered mental health issues, but rather conditions related to brain development, The Daily Telegraph’s analysis originally appeared to group the conditions with mental health claimants.
Mental health conditions and such developmental conditions all fall under the same category claim within the DWP’s quarterly-released data.
The figures come after the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) earlier this year found one in 10 of the country’s 38 million working-age people is in receipt of some kind of health benefit.
The data, collected from November’s release of data, found that there were 3,943,677 million people aged between 16 and 64 who were claiming some form of payment for disability or sickness.
The IFS said the figure has soared since 2019, the year before the pandemic hit, when the figure was 3.2 million.
Rachel Reeves has all but confirmed she will raise taxes this autumn after the Government’s embarrassing climbdown on benefits reforms (Photo: House of Commons)The Government was hoping to impose a more stringent disability criteria for PIP claimants to help fill a black hole in the Government’s spending forecasts.
But to placate rebel MPs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was forced into a £3bn U-turn on the Government’s welfare bill.
The changes will only affect new claimants, while those already on the benefit will continue to receive it.
Following the climbdown Reeves refused to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget, as she admitted the fallout of the welfare bill had been “damaging”.
The Chancellor told The Guardian that there would be “costs to what happened”, as she faced questions about how she would cover a shortfall left by the Downing Street climbdown.
The fallout threatens to cause lasting damage to morale in Labour ranks, with some MPs calling for a reset in relations between the parliamentary party and the leadership before fractures widen.
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Images of the Chancellor crying in the Commons on Wednesday also spooked the financial markets and led to questions about her future, though a Treasury spokesman said the tears were the result of a personal matter and Downing Street said she would remain in post.
Speaking following the fallout, Reeves said she had never considered resigning, adding: “I didn’t work that hard to then quit.”
She said she had gone to Prime Minister’s Questions because she “thought that was the right thing to do” but that “in retrospect, I probably wished I hadn’t gone in… (on) a tough day in the office. It’s been damaging.
“I’m not going to deny that, but I think where we are now, with a review led by (disability minister) Stephen Timms, who is obviously incredibly respected and has a huge amount of experience, that’s the route we’re taking now.”
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