19 March 2025, 09:04

By Jean-André Prager

The ‘Pathways to Work’ Green Paper, published yesterday, asks the right fundamental questions about our health and disability benefits system but offers incomplete answers, oriented to short-term political expediency over long-term reform.

As a recent Policy Exchange report, For Whose Benefit? argues, that our benefits system needs to be fundamentally realigned so it focuses on what people can do rather than what they can’t. A more proactive, engaging and connected system of support, with greater expectations placed on claimants but more appropriate support provided in turn should be the policy destination.

The Green Paper has this philosophical underpinning. It........

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