JSA + premium Vs WRAG

I’ve just read an article that points out that those with PIP or whatever DLA rate, signed onto JSA will get the added disability premium, sitting next to those in the WRAG on the JSA rate alone

What’s really going on here?

A sacrificial policy that they were hoping to bargain away?

It’s about classifications and reducing the Economically inactive population.

Standard used is provided byThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)- http://www.oecd.org/about/

Definition:

The economically inactive population comprises all persons who were neither “employed” nor “unemployed” during the short reference period used to measure “current activity”. This population is split into four groups:

- Attendant at educational institutions;

- Retired;

- Engaged in family duties;

- Other economically inactive.

https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=6252

Economically inactive Retired includes OAPs and those retired on grounds of sickness.

Economically active population comprises all persons of either sex who furnish the supply of labour for the production of economic goods and services as defined by the United Nations System of National Accounts during a specified time-reference period.

Economically active includes - the employed and unemployed.

By removing ‘sickness pension’ and converting/changing to an unemployment benefit your economically inactive stats remarkably improve.