Claim: The government spends around £50 billion a year to support people with disabilities and health conditions.
Fact-check: Does the government spend £50 billion a year on disabled people? - Full Fact
Verdict: the government spends around £50 billion on benefits which go to disabled people and people with health conditions and their carers. this includes payments that aren't directly to do with people's health condition such as housing benefit and income support. this figure doesn't tell us about how individual people's entitlements have changed due to recent changes to the benefits system.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sinéad Boultwood
Date published: 2017-08-03T00:00:00