Starmer urged to protect disability benefit claimants
Urge Sir Keir Starmer was urged to protect people with disabilities, claiming that the welfare system expects to cut benefits.
Now, the health and disability-related welfare bill is now £65 billion per year and is expected to increase to £100 billion over the next four years, and studies show that these figures are lagging behind.
The government is confirming Cut welfare budgets Prior to the spring statement, PM was committed to gathering members to support the move.
Sir Keir was challenged by Liberal Democratic leader Ed Davey and Labor’s Richard Burgon, who said people with disabilities were “feared” and suggested that “the moral thing to do” was to introduce the wealth tax.
The expected cuts may fall on Individual Independent Payments (PIPs), which provide additional living expenses for people with long-term or mental health conditions and cut cuts for those who are unable to work and receive universal credit (UC).
Ed spoke on PMQ, asking the Prime Minister to confirm that disability benefits cannot be cut for those who cannot work.
Sir Kyle said: “We will certainly support those who need support, but we can help those who can go to work. They will be the guiding principle.”
Later, Labour MP Bergon said when people with disabilities “hear the language of difficult choices…it means simple choices to make poor and vulnerable people pay” and said the “brave” thing is to introduce wealth taxes.
Sir Kyle replied that the Conservatives “locked millions of jobs” and had “moral orders” to “help those who want to work hard to get back to work.”
He added: “We have raised funds, taxed energy profits, air passenger taxes on private jets, but this is not a bottomless pit and growth has to be started to get the economic stability we need.”
Labour MPs have been asked to discuss changes at 10 Downing Street,
Jo White, a member of the Bassetlaw who represents the so-called Red Wall, told BBC Radio 4’s Today’s show that “there is a moral responsibility to change people’s lives.”
“It’s a generation — if the family is out of work, they tend to raise their children on the welfare system,” she said.
“People glided at low levels of income, maybe tending toward the black market, but their desires are so low that the community will not change.”
White believes that it is “absolutely crucial” to solve this problem by changing the welfare system because in order to “get people out of poverty… they need to be at work.”
However, a large number of labor colleagues are unhappy. Nottingham Eastern MP Nadia Whittome told the BBC her party “has made serious mistakes”.
“We can’t go back to the “bounce and skier narrative.”
When asked if she would rebel on this issue, Whitm said: “I mastered these benefits – when I was a teenager, my mom had to stop working.
“I represent people with disabilities, we all do it, we hear their stories every day and how scared they are about it, how different these payments have made in their lives.
“I can’t see my ingredients, I can’t see my mom’s eyes and support that.”
Many labor MPs who spoke with the BBC said they agree that many people with disability benefits may work.
But they fear that the government’s rumored schemes, such as freezing individual payments, would punish all programs that are subject to disability benefits, including those who will never be able to work.
One MP told the BBC that it would be “unforgivable”.
Another said that making disability payments more difficult is “not what Labor should be.”
“It’s our DNA to get people out of difficult circumstances, and it’s our DNA,” they said.
Another said: “The government needs to stop talking about everyone who is benefited from disability, just like they are the same because they are not the same.”
The Institute for Finance (IFS) found that in the UK, 1.3 million people claimed to be primarily targeting disability benefits of mental health or behavioral status, accounting for 44% of all claimants.
Exploring the reasons for the “accelerated” rise since the pandemic, the UK is an outlier compared to other countries, whereas none of the health-related welfare claims have increased at the same level of massive growth compared to other countries.
According to a pandemic, more than half of young people aged 16 to 64 claim disability benefits because the pandemic is targeting claims related to mental health or behavioral status IFS Report.
Researchers found that there was particularly rapid growth in new disability benefits claims in terms of learning disabilities and autism spectrum claims.
There is also evidence of increased levels of serious mental health problems.
Due to “desperate deaths” of suicide, alcohol or drug abuse), mortality rates among working-age people are increased—if someone has a mental health condition, the likelihood of such death is greater.
Paul Nowak, secretary general of the Trade Union Assembly (TUC), said cutting the welfare of people with disabilities “only make the current challenge worse”.
He urged Labor not to cut PIP, which he said allowed many people with disabilities to get jobs rather than rely on welfare, but he supported reforms to provide a way to provide tailored employment support with “a certain degree of all methods”.
“Trade trade unions have ambition to improve the health of the country and to help more people do high-quality work,” he said.
“A major lesson in the Conservative era is that austerity has hurt the health of the country – we must never make the same mistake again.”
