Ministers can be brought for a wild work today – because they finally cut billions of kilos of benefits.
Work and pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has been established to set up movements to save around £ 5 billion in the midst of fears spiral -shaped costs are 'untenable'.
It is expected that the benefits of incapacity for work and disability will be the focus, whereby the suitability will be tightened and continuous checks will be flown in. Those with mental health complaints can also get more obligations to look for jobs, while people with disabilities are encouraged to try to work with guarantees that they will not lose if it turns out to be impossible.
Keir Starmer, however, is confronted with stubborn labor resistance against the proposals, even before they are formally announced, with critics burning them 'embarrassing'.
The idea of freezing personal independence payments (PIP) in cash seems to have been dumped in the light of a mutiny on the left.
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall will prepare movements to save around £ 5 billion in the midst of fears spiral -shaped costs are 'not durable'
The bill has risen and is expected to continue to rise
Although the government has made the 'moral' case for the overhaul, it can be crucial for Rachel Reeves while struggling to balance the books in the spring statement next week.
It is thought that the Chancellor has a black hole of £ 15 billion to fill in the finances after economic growth has been established and the costs of the debts run. She has excluded more loans and significant tax increases, so that the expenditure reduces her only option.
This morning, the cabinet is a sign of the long -awaited well -being package before Mrs. Kendall makes a statement to the Lower House during lunch.
The biggest ticket item is expected to limit rights to PIP – which are not related to the work status, but is paid to support people with extra livelihood through their disability.
There are reports that people have to show that they have serious difficulty with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and eating.
That can make it much more difficult for people with mental health problems to claim.
However, those with serious degenerative disabilities can be exempt from the completely needed of reassessions.
In the meantime, the assessment of work capacity for the disability element of universal credit can be replaced by a more difficult system. The highest percentages of those hand -outs can be reduced in real terms.
Many members believe that around £ 1 billion of the savings will be recycled to help claimants to work.
And there will be action to remove the perverse incentive against those with incapacity for work to try work. Currently, if a job proves impossible and needs to be abandoned, people can go back to lower payments.
The Tories promised to eliminate £ 12 billion from the benefits law before the elections, although the figures they presented were strongly disputed.
Touring broadcast studios This morning, Cabinet office Pat McFadden argued that the UK was the only major economy where inactivity had not fallen back to the proposed level.
He confirmed that reforms of the reassessment would be the changes, and Gained that the cabinet is 'united' around the need to reduce the costs.
Asked whether support for people with mental health disorders should be 'time limited', Mr. McFadden Times Radio said: 'We think it requires support, but we do not think it makes people permanent … Reviews will be part of the package announced today.
'We want people, if they have sickness benefits in the long term, not to whine forever, but be reassessed.
“There have been too few reassessments in recent years.”
Mayor of Labor Greater Manchester Andy Burnham warned yesterday that changes in suitability and support while the system would leave as it is, “too many people would catch in poverty.”
Speaking at BBC Newsight, former front bencher Baroness Chakrabarti suggested what she had heard about the content of the green newspaper was 'in principle wrong'.
She also put briefings about the proposals and insisted on it: “Shame that people who play politically, those spin doctors and special advisers who played this game at the expense of the mental health of people.”
Keir Starmer is confronted with stubborn labor resistance against the proposals, even before they are formally announced, with critics burning them 'embarrassing'
Yesterday, the Chancellor rejected the idea of borrowing more to keep benefits the same as 'not serious'
Mrs. Kendall has tried to reassure the MPs that the reforms would guarantee 'trust and fairness' in the social security system and ensure that the benefits are available 'for people who now need it and for years'.
Ministers insist that reform is necessary, given the number of people in England and Wales that claim that illness or disability has risen from 2.8 million to around 4 million since 2019.
The Chancellor yesterday rejected the idea of borrowing more to keep benefits the same as 'not serious'.
'Every day another 1000 people continue with personal independence payments, handicap benefits. That is not sustainable, “she said.
