{"id":228842,"date":"2025-10-27T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T21:01:09","slug":"dwp-benefits-claimants-who-have-anxiety-or-depression-face-big-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/228842\/","title":{"rendered":"DWP benefits claimants who have anxiety or depression face big shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Therapists will tell anxious and depressed benefits claimants that work is good for their mental health\"DWPDWP benefits claimants who have anxiety or depression face big shake-up<\/p>\n

People on Department for Work and Pensions benefits who are anxious or depressed face a big change. Therapists will tell anxious and depressed benefits claimants that work is good for their mental health in a fresh attempt to end sick note culture.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph reports GPs are being told to prescribe having a job as a form of treatment. Labour Party<\/a> Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the change reflected a shift in attitude to treating employment as being \u201cjust as vital\u201d to health as diet and exercise.<\/p>\n

One Labour MP insisted: \u201cCuts to welfare are quite simply not acceptable given the wholly unjust way inequality is structured in Britain, with so many people living in poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The guidance to medics states: \u201cWe need to ensure people have access to more holistic support, when and where it is needed, to reduce health disparities and avoid the negative health impacts associated with being unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis not only benefits individuals, their families and communities, but also supports economic growth, which can be reinvested into public services.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Streeting told The Telegraph: \u201cStaying in a job you love or finding work that gives you purpose is just as vital to your health as eating well and staying active.<\/p>\n

\u201cMillions of people are trapped in a system that writes them off instead of supporting them \u2013 this Government is shifting the narrative from \u2018you can\u2019t\u2019 to \u2018how can we help you?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this new guidance, we are helping front-line staff get patients the personalised support they need as early as possible, because preventing illness and keeping people in work is central to building an NHS<\/a> fit for the future, and strengthening our economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone we can help stay in work or return to work isn\u2019t just transforming their own life \u2013 they\u2019re contributing to our communities, and building the healthier, more prosperous nation we all want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Therapists will tell anxious and depressed benefits claimants that work is good for their mental healthDWP benefits claimants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2215,102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-228842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-dwp","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-mentalhealth","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}