Exclusive: The UK only spends 1.3 per cent of GDP on incapacity benefits, three and a half times less than Norway and Denmark.
The UK spends a lower percentage of its GDP on financial support for disabled people and sick workers than any other country in north-west Europe, the SNP has claimed.
Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands and Switzerland all spent more than double the amount the UK does on incapacity support as a proportion of GDP in 2019. She said:"The UK is trailing behind our European neighbours when it comes to the low levels of support Westminster offers to disabled people and workers who get sick or injured.
"The UK government must urgently move to tackle poverty and increase the support offered to disabled people - including by introducing an 'essentials guarantee' that benefits will always meet the cost of living, raising sick pay, and matching progressive SNP government policies like the Scottish Child Payment to put money back into people's pockets.
Earlier this month, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation warned the UK's social security system is failing to provide adequate support, with disabled people "more likely to be in poverty, and in very deep poverty".
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