Amps my source is The Times and therefore behind a paywall but look into it and correct me if Iām wrong.
None of it is pensions - this is working age benefits Iām talking about.
Donāt know how it compares to 10 yrs ago but itās āup 52% since the pandemic and by Ā£34bn since Rishi Sunak became Chancellor (which is more than the combined annual budgets of the Home Office and the Foreign Office). ā
āThere are 5.5 million economically inactive people excluding students and retired people. ā
