6.5 million people in Britain are on benefits. (Does not mean 6.5m British people are on benefits.) A more useful figure is Britain has 4 million (1 in 4) working age people receiving UC and disability. (Pensioners can’t receive UC, jobseekers, PIP.)
1.9m benefit claims (all types) are made by foreign nationals. Of that, in 2025, 1.26m foreign nationals claimed UC. There were (only) 883,000 in 2022. The bill for that UC in 2024 was £10.1bn. DWP data summarised by Migration Centre.
Of the foreign nationals we pay benefits to, 54% are EU nationals. Includes Albanians, Romanian and Bulgarian ‘Roma’ = gyppos. Just saying.
46% are non-EU. Includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, North Africa, Sudan and Somalia.
Back to the total spend nationally.
9% of total welfare goes on incapacity benefits. 7.6% of working age people claim incapacity benefits and 9% of working age people are claiming disability specific benefits including PIP. These aren’t discrete groups, people can be/are in both. PIP payments go from £108.00 to £194.60 p a week. They are income tax free, unlike the State Pension.
In mental hospital I’ve seen patients spend (waste) that money on takeaways, vapes, cigarettes & tobacco, sometimes on drugs when possible. Many are in social, supported accommodation, rent is paid for them and their flat is waiting for them when they are discharged. This isn’t true for all patients though. Not all receive PIP for example.
91% of people signed off as too sick to work and exempted from job-seeking have/report having a mental health condition which includes behavioural conditions.
What does that mean? Most are those that everyone’s heard of. Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia. Bipolar. OCD. ADHD. Autistic spectrum. All are genuinely disabling to various degrees – for those who really have them. Not everybody claims. Not everybody is so disabled by say, depression, that they can’t work. These figures aren’t a proxy for Britain’s psychiatric population.
You might raise an eyebrow or two to find these on the PIP list though. Personality disorder. Alcohol and drug misuse. Conduct disorder (*) and Oppositional defiant disorder. (These last two are the same thing at different ages)
*) Some definitions of Conduct Disorder.
a) Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental health condition in children and teens characterized by a persistent pattern of aggressive, antisocial behavior. Individuals with CD repeatedly violate societal norms, break rules, and infringe on the rights and well-being of others.
b) Conduct disorder refers to a group of behavioural and emotional problems characterised by a disregard for others.
c) Conduct disorder is a type of behavior disorder. It’s when a child has antisocial behavior. He or she may disregard basic social standards and rules.
I’ll tell you what it really means. These are the category of child Jordan Peterson refers to when he says if a child hasn’t become socialised by the age of 4, hasn’t learned to play rules based games with other children, to share and take turns, then he never will learn, never will make friends, will be shunned and avoided by other children.
(And there’s another series of posts on how to avoid that happening to children and which categories of parent produce nascent ASPDs.)
Conduct disorder is a euphemism (because psychiatrists in the developed world are not allowed to diagnose an under-18 with a personality disorder) for anti-social-personality disorder and that’s what these little shits will grow up into.
Call me a horrid unreconstructed old bigot but criminals should get punishments for their behaviour, not benefits.
You may not like me saying that ASPD (and CD) = criminal but it is true. In ‘Why Britain is ruined beyond repair’ I wrote at length about the ‘disease burden’ we law-abiding, tax-paying citizens have to bear and which PDs hoover up free.
In the UK, 63% of male remand prisoners, 49% of male sentenced prisoners, and 31% of female prisoners have/are ASPD.
From ‘Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2023/4’
Continued in Benefits Pt 2
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