Starmer says the cost of the disease is ‘destructive’ benefits
EPAThe rising cost of illness and disability benefits is “disastrous” for public finance, Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper said, “After his government’s announcement of a major overhaul of the welfare system.”
Comprehensive changes were unveiled on Tuesday, which ministers say that by saving £ 5BN in a year by 2030 and encouraging people to work, while protecting those who cannot protect.
Sir Kir said that the current system “erased a terrible human cost”, people who wanted to work unable to reach the support that were unable to reach them to the necessary support.
But the government’s reforms have faced criticism from labor backbenchers, unions and charity, which are afraid that changes may push more disabled people into poverty.
Hundreds of thousands of people are likely to be affected by profit changes, which will make it difficult for people with less serious conditions to claim disability payments.
Writing in the Times newspaper, Sir Kir said that the present system was “actively encouraging” people away from work and represented “a protest for the values of our country”.
“This is not only inappropriate for taxpayers,” he said. “It is also a bad long -term result for many of them.”
He excluded people of 2.8 million working ages due to long -term disease, stating that it was a “loss of conservative record” on welfare.
Responding to the government’s announcement on Tuesday, the conservatives stated that the changes were “very rare, too late” and needed to be “difficult”.
Shadow Work and Pension Secretary Helen said why the government was planning to save £ 5BN in just one year, when the annual bill for health and disability benefits was estimated to be more than £ 100bn until 2029/30 financial year.
Central eligibility criteria for government reforms is a tough Individual freedom payment – An advantage aimed at helping people with increased costs due to disability or long -term disease.
More than a million people may lose this payment under changes, the resolution Foundation Think Tank has estimated.
The government will also offer a “Right to TRAI” guarantee, which will allow people to try to work without losing their rights for profit when wrong.
To determine whether one is still eligible for financial assistance, to determine whether people with the most serious health conditions will never be convinced.
Work and Pension Secretary Liz Kendal told the BBC that reforms will make the UK’s social security system “durable for long -term”, but the overall profit bill is still expected to increase.
Since the Kovid epidemic has to spend on benefits related to health and disability, and by 2029 currently it is estimated to increase from £ 65bn to £ 2029 to £ 100bn.
Some people have spoken against the government’s proposals amidst the possibility of possible impact on the weak people.
Disability Benefits Consortium, which represents more than 100 donations and organizations, said: “These immoral and destructive benefits will push more disabled people into poverty, and will spoil people’s health.”
The SNP stated that the measures “will harm the weakest people” and “mark the beginning of a new era of austerity”.
Debbi Abraham, chairman of the Work and Pension Select Committee, a labor MP, said that “there were” more kind “ways to” balance the books “on the back of sick and disabled people.
But other labor MPs have accepted the government’s argument that Kendall has called a more “pro-work system”, a moral matter for this.
Many benefits contenders Talked to BBC After the announcement. Some welcomed aspects of reforms, while others expressed concern.
Daisy, 22, from West London, said, “If I do not have a pip, I will become a burden for my family.”
