Published: 31st January, 2025
- £42 billion wellbeing boost outweighs £28 billion admin costs of disability benefits
- Economic and health consequences counterproductive if government cuts disability benefits
Making Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) harder to access is counterproductive, costly and a health risk, according to a new report.
The ‘burden barrier’ to claiming benefits means that eligible disabled people are already put off applying altogether and suffering from poorer health and poorer finances as a result.
Increasing access to these benefits would enhance the wellbeing and health of more eligible disabled people, valued at £12,300 in wellbeing annually per person.
PBE economists compared life satisfaction between disabled people receiving PIP and eligible disabled people not receiving PIP and used HM Treasury methods to assign economic value to wellbeing improvements.
Read the full report at – www.probonoeconomics.com/news/economic-value-of-disability-benefits-outweighs-the-cost
Disability Rights UK article on this report – More than money: The lifelong wellbeing impact of disability benefits