Get incapacity benefits spending by type

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 the current forecast horizon.

Usage

get_incapacity_spending(refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, re-download even if a cached copy exists. Defaults to FALSE.

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())
ib <- get_incapacity_spending()
#> ℹ Loading from cache. Use `refresh = TRUE` to re-download.
unique(ib$series)
#> [1] "Employment and support allowance (excluding assessment phase)"
#> [2] "Incapacity benefit"                                           
#> [3] "Invalidity benefit"                                           
#> [4] "Sickness benefit"                                             
#> [5] "Severe disablement allowance"                                 
#> [6] "Universal credit health (excluding assessment phase)"         
#> [7] "Income support (incapacity/sick and disabled)"                
#> [8] "Incapacity benefits (total)"                                  
options(op)
# }