The provided graph depicts the amount of support, which was known as Incapacity Benefit, old British males in 3 age groups received due to their mental illness from 1971 to 2015.

The provided graph depicts the amount of support, which was known as Incapacity Benefit, old British males in 3 age groups received due to their mental illness from 1971 to 2015. Overall, it can be seen that the benefits system refinement taking place in 1995 made a significant change in the number of illness cases. In particular, the pre-reform era witnessed a rise in all 3 age brackets, while the post-reform one saw the opposite. Looking closely at the period before the adjustment, it is clear that the elderly faced a lot of issues regarding their mental health. For instance, the figure of the 60-64 category commenced at around 13% in 1970, then doubled after 25 years. The same increasing trend can be applied to the 55-59 and 65-69 age ranges which climbed from under 7% and about 3% to roughly 19% and 18% respectively. However, the improvement of the benefits system seemed to resolve the problem of mental illness as the proportion of said incidents in all 3 age brackets declined rapidly. Despite registering a slight increase in the 2000-2005 period, the 60-64 range generally dipped to merely 17. 5% in 2015. Similarly, the 55-59 one also dived to approximately 11%, which showed a reduction of 8%. Finally, as for the 65-69 group, there was a steep drop of over 16% in the first 5 years after the alteration, but the data steadily rose to under 4% in 2015.