1mn fewer people to secure health benefits under UK welfare reform

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About 1MN will be hindered by health and disability benefits as a result of well-being reform, which defines the Government of Sir Keyir Starmer, of course, an exhibition of employment deputies.

From Tuesday, 5 billion pounds of 5 billion pounds will be presented from the bill of raising benefits to the United States.

According to the reforms, PIP was rejected for many people on mental health, and others would see that their benefits have been reduced to a lower level.

These changes require voting in the House of Commons, the people said:

Dozens of working lawmakers have expressed serious concerns about help or cutting those in need, and several ministers have objections to Prime Minister Sir Keyir strayers last week. Government sessionA number

Starmes and Kendal, who will present his green newspaper on Tuesday, are determined to restrain the benefits of Britain, which claim that the economy and slamming are growing.

Children of about 4mn 16 to 64 – one of 10 now Disability or Incompatibility BenefitsFrom 2019 to 2.8 million, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

More than half of this growth stems from increasing mental health or behavioral requirements.

On Monday, Cendall supported its upcoming reforms, saying that “there will always be people who cannot work because of the severity of their illness. A number of people will always be protected. “

Former member of the work shadow cabinet Rachael Maskell said that the attempts of ministers to assure the deputies are “quite absurd” on the offered scale of reductions.

“If they come out with Dragon’s means, they still have to go proper advice, and there are everything to play,” he added.

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, seeks to use the reductions to correct the growth of slow growth and borrowing state finance.

In the October budget, 9.9 billion pounds of Reeves’ fiscal rules were largely deleted according to state officials. The rules say that current costs should be covered by tax revenues by 2029-30.

At the end of the predictable period, about 1 million people will receive health benefits, which will mainly be presented through changes in the competence of new requirements, but also through the reassessments of the existing cases.

There will also be a sharp renovation to the system of incapacity, which determines who is eligible for additional support, expected to be completely restored.

Kendall will also provide the highest level of incapacity support – an additional 416 pounds per month. At the same time, adding the main exchange rate of support to people who have been employed.

Approval is not expected that the price is neutral, the treasury of which plans to pay more savings, cutting the highest inability to support the universal loan.

The previous media insisted that Kendal planned to freeze the benefits of disability so that they did not increase in inflation, which would probably increase several billion for the treasury.

However, some workers believe that freezing was never a serious idea. A high-ranking deputy said that it was a tactic “to look like they made concessions, and real reductions are not so bad.”

One treasurer official said that the proposal was never taken seriously in the section.

Workers took rigid disciplinary action against the rebel deputies last summer, after they voted for welfare policies, a handful of stopped.

Another senior deputy said that pedestrians pass with intense emotions.