Downloads (and caches) the OBR Welfare Trends Report charts and tables workbook and returns annual spending on each incapacity benefit as a share of GDP, from 1978-79 to 2028-29, from the October 2024 Welfare Trends Report (the OBR's most recent report on incapacity benefits).
Value
An obr_tbl with the standard v0.4.0 schema. series is the
benefit name, values are spending as a percentage of GDP, metric_type
is "pct", unit is "pct". See get_public_finances() for full
column docs.
Details
Series include: Invalidity Benefit, Incapacity Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), Sickness Benefit, and Severe Disablement Allowance.
See also
Other welfare:
get_incapacity_caseloads(),
get_welfare_spending()
Examples
# \donttest{
op <- options(obr.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
ib <- get_incapacity_spending()
unique(ib$series)
})
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#> candidate.
#> ℹ Falling back to
#> <https://obr.uk/download/welfare-trends-report-october-2024-charts-and-tables/>.
#> ! Returned data may be older than expected. Run with internet access, or pin a
#> vintage explicitly when that feature ships.
#> ℹ Downloading
#> welfare_trends_october_2024__welfare-trends-report-october-2024-charts-and-tables.xlsx
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#> <https://obr.uk/download/welfare-trends-report-october-2024-charts-and-tables/>.
#> ✖ HTTP 403 Forbidden.
options(op)
# }