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by LiamMcCalloway 1048 days ago
When reading these stats, two useful things to do:

- ask yourself how people in similar situations would be categorized in other countries

- whether there are benefits to self selecting as economically disabled in the UK

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Curious what benefits you think there might be.

Economic disability is hardly generously rewarded in the UK.

But the typical choice is between disability and unemployment benefits, not disability and work. How do they compare ?

The UK has an order of magnitude more people it considers disable than neighboring France, last I checked (15years ago).