Daddy’s girl! True Thompson proudly represented father Tristan Thompson during her school’s recent spirit day.
24.01.2023 - 07:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A new study has discovered that more than half of households across Great Britain are receiving more from the UK Government in state-funded support that they pay in tax. The new findings should be enough of a nudge to encourage more households to check and make sure they are claiming all the support they are entitled to.
Civitas analysis of Office of National Statistics (ONS) data from 2020/21 showed a record 54.2 per cent of individuals - or 36 million people - now live in households which received more in benefits - including non-cash ones such as NHS and education services – than they contributed in taxes. Analysis authors Tim Knox and Daniel Lilley say the “net dependency ratio” is the highest on record.
It comes with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) due to publish a White Paper on benefits in coming months, ahead of the Spring Budget in March.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride is looking to revamp the benefits system in an effort to boost employment numbers that have not returned to pre-pandemic levels amid labour shortages. He was asked by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the autumn to review issues holding back workforce participation.
The PM said last week the UK Government is looking at a range of measures to tackle inactivity, adding: “We need to look at how our welfare system is operating and is it operating in the way that we would like to make sure that we are supporting and incentivising people who can be, to be in work.”
Civitas’s analysis showed 83 per cent of all income tax is paid by just 40 per cent of British adults.
It also found the bottom 40 per cent of the income scale - some 27 million people - receive an average of £23,000 per year in cash benefits and ‘benefits in kind’.
Chancellor Jeremy
Daddy’s girl! True Thompson proudly represented father Tristan Thompson during her school’s recent spirit day.
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