‘Broken’ welfare system holding people and economy back – Number 10

He said there has been an “unsustainable rise in welfare spending”, and added: “Left as it is, the system we’ve inherited would continue to leave more and more people trapped in a life of unemployment and inactivity, and that’s not just bad for the economy, it’s bad for those people too, and it’s why this Government is going to set up plans to overhaul the health and disability benefits system in the coming weeks.”