It feels to me that what they're saying is that there is a pool of people who are unable to work (the percentage of people being disabled by Covid is a decent p

It feels to me that what they're saying is that there is a pool of people who are unable to work (the percentage of people being disabled by Covid is a decent percentage of the total prior disability rate) but are currently on unemployment benefits rather than disability benefits because the latter requires a lot of jumping through hoops. Cracking down on "malingering" will drive these people to jump through the hoops for disability rather than actually pushing them into the workforce. We see a related issue in the US--conservative obsession with pushing them into the labor force. Hint: most of those people are either taking care of someone else (and pushing them into the labor force will dump that other person into the state system, costing the state more), or are those who are marginally functional physically but fully there mentally--whose time is much better spent in school learning some sort of knowledge skill rather than minimally productive physical labor.