Sunak: Welfare Reforms Would End ‘Sick Note Culture’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to end the UK’s “sick note culture,” which saw 94 percent of the 11 million Fit Notes issued last year signed off as “not fit for work.” Delivering a speech at the Centre for Social Justice think tank on Friday, Mr. Sunak outlined other reforms, including plans to support more people on disability benefits to return to the workforce. Mr. Sunak said, “We don’t just need to change the sick note—we need to change the sick note culture so the default becomes what work you can do—not what you can’t.” The prime minister said that failure to address the growing number of people who have become economically inactive would not only let down those who need help getting back into work, but create a “deep sense of unfairness amongst those whose taxes fund our social safety net.”...