[LiamMcCalloway]

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

[TheOtherHobbes]

Curious what benefits you think there might be.

Economic disability is hardly generously rewarded in the UK.

[LiamMcCalloway]

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).