Tensions grow over UK government plan to cut welfare payments

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The tensions within the Labor Party were growing on Monday, as the Minister of Pensions and Pensions Les Kendall prepared to uncover plans to reduce about 5 billion pounds annually from government spending on health related advantages.

Kendall will put its plans on a green paper to reform social welfare on Tuesday, with Doneng Street’s insistence on the existence of a “ethical and economic state to reform our broken system.”

Dozens of representatives of work expressed their concerns about withdrawing or cutting support to the needy, and many ministers raised objections with Prime Minister Sir Kerr Starmer at the cabinet meeting last week.

Andy Bornham, the mayor of the Greater Manchester, said he was concerned about changing support and eligibility for the benefits, saying, “Many people will undergo poverty.”

Veteran Diane Abbott said on Monday that “lowering money for the disabled are not a work to do,” Veteran Diane Abbott MP Diane said on Monday.

But a STARMER spokesman said that “the system does not work as intended” and the most prominent explosion of mental health demands for the advantages of disease and disability.

He said: “Many evaluation systems have been designed for more than a decade and has not been touched since then.” Labor Party officials said the reforms will provide about 5 billion pounds annually by the end of parliament.

Consultatives Rachel Reeves will help repair a hole in public financial resources caused by slow growth and high borrowing costs.

9.9 billion pounds of the River Financial Laws of the October Budget has been eliminated largely or completely eliminated, according to government officials. The rules say that the current spending should be covered by tax revenues by 2029-30.

The government presented the idea of ​​freezing the level of disability subsidies, which are referred to as personal independence payments. But the ministers retracted the move after a violent reaction to work.

Louise Murphy, from the decision-making institution, said that PIP rates at PIP rates would save 600 million pounds in 2026-107, as it rose to 3.3 billion pounds by 2029-30 with an increase in the number of cases of claims.

However, some Labor Party deputies believe that the freeze of benefits – which would have been hit by the disabled in a strong need – was never a dangerous idea. “It was a classic tactic” studp studp “. “To make it seem to make concessions and actual pieces are not bad.”

Government officials insist that the idea was on the table, but it was disposed of. One of them said: “Things were not thinking correctly.” “The original idea was to announce the plan last week, but we were not ready and the cabinet ministers – properly – that they were wearing.”

The UK Minister of Health said on Sunday that the UK was a “exaggerated diagnosis” in a state of mental diagnosis, as the land was prepared for reforms expected to reduce support for people with psychological problems.

The BBC Street told: “Mental well -being, the disease, it is a spectrum and I definitely think there is an excessive diagnosis but there [also] Many people are being removed. “

Downting Street held a series of surroundings with Labor Party representatives last week to try to suppress anxiety and frustration over the discounts, but many members are still very uncomfortable.

Kendall is also expected to reduce the highest level of deficit support – which provides additional 416 pounds per month – with an increase in the basic support rate for people who suffer from work, known as comprehensive credit, according to people who have been informed of this step.

Experts have long argued that the low level of unemployment subsidies may have prompted more people with basic health conditions to demand an additional deficiency and disability.

However, access to the types of savings targeted by the treasury will also require significant discounts to support the handicapped and patients, in order to enhance payments to the largest number on the basic rate.

A lot of savings can be achieved by restricting PIP eligibility, a step expected to appear in the kendall plan. People who claim to support disability for mental health conditions are likely to be more affected.

Payments are expected to be deprived of about 1 million people, including those who suffer from mental health conditions and those who suffer from washing, eating and wearing their clothes. It is also expected that people who need to help hear the new threshold and may lose payments.