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5k sign off sick per day
Daily Star Sunday
|October 05, 2025
FIVE thousand people are being signed off sick every working day as figures show incapacity benefit claims have doubled under Labour.
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Britain spends more than £80billion on sickness benefit each year.
The number is on course to hit £100bn by the end of the decade.
This story is from the October 05, 2025 edition of Daily Star Sunday.
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