More than half of the British adults depend on the state to make ends meet, a study suggests, in the midst of a growing 'dependency culture'.
This includes almost one in four adults – or 12.6 million – whose living is dependent on the state pension, researchers found.
In general, 52 percent turned out to be directly or indirectly to rely on the growing public sector.
There are 6.3 million (12 percent) that depend on universal credit.
In the meantime, 5.9 million (11 percent) are employed by the public sector, and almost 3 million young adults (5 percent) are students who rely on loans and subsidies funded by the taxpayer.
Researchers from the Adam Smith Institute also recorded employees in Human Resources and the planning sectors in their State Reliance Index.
The number of these roles has been exploded in recent months due to new bureaucracy introduced by Labor.
They formed another 160,000 adults (0.3 percent) depending on the state, according to the think tank.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said that the study was also proof that the State 'again breaks' after the revision of Labor of the Welfare System.
She said: 'This index is an important contribution to the necessary work of the re -wiring of the state.
More than half of the British adults depend on the state to make ends meet, suggests an investigation, in the midst of a growing 'dependency culture' (stock photo)
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch (photo) said that the study was further proof that the state 'again' is 'again' after the overhaul of Labor of the Welfare System
In general, 52 percent turned out to be directly or indirectly to rely on the growing public sector. (stock photo)
'A culture of dependence has developed that goes beyond well -being into a bureaucratic class with so many talented people who work in the unproductive parts of the public sector and about compliance with government regulations in the private sector.
'Increasing dependence on state subsidy and regulations blocks companies and growth.
She added that the data of the Adam Smith Institute 'argues for fundamental reforms that will reduce the talents of the British people – away from stifling bureaucracy and in innovative and productive work'.
The study says that an explosion in regulatory authorities has created a 'class of professionals' whose roles depend on growth-resisting bureaucracy.
It points to the Human Resources sector, where jobs have increased four times faster than the general growth of the workforce in the UK.
Sam Bidwell, the author of the report, said: 'The results of the State Reliance index are amazing, but hardly surprising.
'They are the inevitable result of decades of the government that interfere with the economy and our lives.
'Even worse, given that some jobs in the private sector are subsidized by the state, the actual number of those who are somehow dependent on the state is probably higher.
'We have to wake up with the fact that an ever winding pool of taxpayers must support the enormous issues of the government. This is completely untenable. '
It comes after a report from the House of Lords has warned earlier this year that the rising benefits of Great Britain have to do with a defective welfare system.
Peers said that claimants are currently 'encouraged' to declare themselves sick in the long term, with the potential to double their income.
