Table 5.
Overview of patients who had a recorded primary psychiatric diagnosis and benefit receipt related to unemployment, sickness, disability, income support benefits
| Benefit type* Recorded primary psychiatric diagnoses (ICD-10 code and description) † |
Universal Credit N (%) n=30 622 |
Jobseeker’s Allowance N (%) n=50 076 |
Employment and Support Allowance N (%) n=60 681 |
Incapacity Benefit N (%) n=38 336 |
Severe Disability Allowance N (%) n=2957 | Personal Independence Payment N (%) n=35 214 |
Disability Living Allowance N (%) n=40 189 |
Income Support N (%) n=43 451 |
| F00–F09 (mental and behavioural disorders and mental disorders due to known physiological conditions) n=26 069 | 513 (2.0) | 1352 (5.2) | 2074 (8.0) | 2333 (9.0) | 178 (0.7) | 1600 (6.1) | 3734 (14.3) | 1606 (6.2) |
| F10–F19 (mental and behavioural disorders due to psychoactive substance use) n=23 713 | 8574 (36.2) | 15 167 (64.0) | 15 563 (65.6) | 10 683 (45.1) | 171 (0.7) | 6165 (26.0) | 4811 (20.3) | 11 334 (47.8) |
| F20–F29 (schizophrenia, schizotypal, delusional disorders and other non-mood psychotic disorders) n=14 944 | 2898 (19.4) | 4865 (32.6) | 9757 (65.3) | 7176 (48.0) | 975 (6.5) | 6166 (41.3) | 8662 (58.0) | 7202 (48.2) |
| F30–F39 (mood (affective) disorders) n=27 046 | 7044 (26.0) | 11 351 (42.0) | 12 486 (46.2) | 8076 (29.9) | 360 (1.3) | 7232 (26.7) | 7840 (29.0) | 9621 (35.6) |
| F40–F48 (anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, somatoform and other non-psychotic mental disorders) n=20 432 | 5451 (26.7) | 8612 (42.2) | 9743 (47.7) | 5543 (27.1) | 199 (1.0) | 6097 (29.8) | 5804 (28.4) | 6661 (32.6) |
| F50–F59 (behavioural syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors) n=3840 | 1168 (30.4) | 2124 (55.3) | 1406 (36.6) | 685 (17.8) | 24 (0.6) | 824 (21.5) | 810 (21.1) | 1027 (26.7) |
| F60–F69 (disorders of adult personality and behaviour) n=5495 | 1874 (34.1) | 2640 (48.0) | 3820 (69.5) | 2095 (38.1) | 114 (2.1) | 2615 (47.6) | 2256 (41.1) | 2722 (49.5) |
| F70–F79 (intellectual disabilities) n=2448 | 238 (9.7) | 246 (10.1) | 1856 (75.7) | 637 (26.0) | 848 (34.6) | 1330 (54.3) | 2255 (92.1) | 1451 (59.3) |
| F80–F89 (pervasive and specific developmental disorders) n=2623 | 653 (24.9) | 900 (34.3) | 1598 (60.9) | 448 (17.1) | 66 (2.5) | 1447 (55.2) | 1711 (65.2) | 558 (21.3) |
| F90–F98 (behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence) n=5092 | 2209 (43.4) | 2819 (55.4) | 2378 (46.7) | 660 (13.0) | 22 (0.4) | 1738 (34.1) | 2306 (45.3) | 1269 (24.9) |
*Any type of benefits received between 1 January 2005 and 30 June 2020.
†Latest psychiatric primary diagnosis recorded closest and before window end date (30 June 2019) based on ICD-10 F codes only (mental and behavioural disorders) but excluding non-specific diagnoses, for example, Z*, F99*, FXX.
ICD, International Classification of Diseases.