Mental Health Epidemic Driving Up UK Disability Claims, IFS Says.

A total of 2.2 million working age people in the UK are now on disability benefit, with 944,000 citing mental health as their main condition. Keywords: ALLTOP; BON; BUSINESS; CORONAVIR; COS; EUROPE; GLOBALMACR; GOV; HEA; INDUSTRIES; MARKETS; UK; WORLD EN ALLTOP BON BUSINESS CORONAVIR COS EUROPE GLOBALMACR GOV HEA INDUSTRIES MARKETS UK WORLD Britain is in the grip of a mental health epidemic that has left almost 1 million people on disability support and is costing the government billions of pounds, analysis of official figures by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found. [Extracted from the article]