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About 1m people will be prevented from receiving health and disability benefits under the well -being reforms that place Sir Starmer’s government in the course for a confrontation with work MPs.
Plans aimed at saving £ 5 billion a year from the UK increasing benefits to be discovered Tuesday and pensions Liz Kendall will include a scaling of “personal independence” payments, which are made to cover additional costs for people who cannot work due to disability or bad health.
According to reforms, PIP would be denied for many people with mental health conditions, while others with some physical and psychiatric conditions would see their reduced benefits to a lower level, according to people informed about plans.
These changes will require a vote in the Municipal House, people said, rejecting Starmer and his ministers against a growing back of the backbone MPs, who oppose the measures and raise the possibility of greater rebellion to date.
Dozens of work MPs have expressed serious concerns about the attraction or reducing support for those in need, and some ministers raised opposition with Prime Minister Sir Starmer at the meeting of last week’s cabinet.
However, Starmer and Kendall – who will present her green letter on Tuesday – are determined to curb the costs of the UK benefits, which they claim to be capturing the economy and damaging growth.
About 4MN 16 to 64 years old-one in 10-now claim either disability or disability, from 2.8MN in 2019, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
More than half of this increase stems from an increase in claims of mental health or behavioral conditions.
Kendall defended her future reforms on Monday, saying there will always be people who cannot work because of the severity of their illness.
Rachael Maskell, a former member of the Shadow Labor cabinet, said the ministers’ efforts to secure MPs were “quite unstable” with the proposed scale of cuts: “Some of us are wondering how they might be square.”
“If they come up with draconian masses, they will have to go through the right consultations and have everything to play,” she added.
Rachel Reeves, Chancellor, is seeking to use cuts to fix a hole in public finances caused by slow growth and increased borrowing costs.
9,9 billion pounds of head rooms within Reeves’ fiscal rules with the October budget have been largely deleted, according to government officials. The rules say that current expenses should be covered by tax revenues by 2029-30.
About 1m fewer people will receive health -related benefits by the end of the forecasting period, mainly through changes in acceptability criteria for new claims, but also through reassessments of existing cases, people informed about the plan.
There will also be a drastic adjustment of the system for disability benefits, with the assessment of the work ability that determines who is entitled to additional support that is expected to be completely destroyed.
Kendall will also reduce the highest level of disability support – which provides an additional 416 pound per month – while increasing the basic support rate for people who are out of work, known as universal loans, according to people informed about this action.
Rebalancing is not expected to be neutral cost, with treasury planning to ban more savings by reducing the highest degree of disability support than pumps in increasing universal credit.
Previous media reports claimed that Kendall was planning to raise disability benefits so that they would not rise with inflation in an action that was likely to collect several billion for the treasure.
However, some work MPs believe freezing was never a serious idea. An elderly MP said it was a tactic “to make it look like they have made omissions and the current cuts are not so bad”.
A treasure official said the proposal was never taken seriously in the department.
Whips the workshop took a harsh disciplinary action against rebel MPs last summer after they voted against welfare policies, with a coup still suspended.
Another elderly MP said Backbenchers were going through intense emotions: “There is a disturbed mix of fear of whips with a sense of fear in their constituents.”
