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Tensions within the Labor Party on social cuts developed on Monday while the secretary of work and pensions Liz Kendall was preparing to reveal plans to reduce public spending in health -related benefits.
Dozens of Labor deputies have expressed concerns about the withdrawal or reduction in support for people in need, and several ministers have raised concerns with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the meeting of the cabinet last week.
Andy Burnham, mayor of the Grand Manchester, said he was concerned about the change in support and eligibility for social benefits, saying: “It would hang too many people in poverty”.
“There is no case in a scenario to reduce the support available for disabled people who are unable to work,” he wrote in Times.
The veteran of the work of labor Diane Abbott said on Monday that “reducing money for disabled people was not one thing to do”. “When people say that being in performances is a choice of lifestyle, they know the kind of accommodation in which these people are. . . And how humiliating it can be, “she said.
Health Secretary Wes Street said on Sunday that the UK “overdiagating” mental health problems while preparing the ground for reforms that should reduce support for people with psychiatric problems.
Street told the BBC: “Mental well-being, illness is a spectrum and I think there is certainly an overdiagnosis but there is [also] Too many people are struck off.
Downing Street organized a series of briefings with labor deputies last week to try to repress the concern and frustration concerning the cuts, which should be announced on Tuesday, but many members are still deeply uncomfortable.
The government was to freeze the level of disability benefits, called personal independence payments, so that they did not have risen according to inflation.
But the government has moved away from the move during the weekend. Louise Murphy, of the Resolution Foundation, said that a multi-year freeze in PIP prices would have saved 600 million pounds sterling in 2026-7, going to 3.3 billion pounds sterling by 2029-30 as the case of helmet case of the applicants increased.
Kendall is also planned to reduce the highest level of inability support – which provides additional £ 416 per month – while increasing the basic support rate for people without work, known as universal credit, according to informed people.
Experts have long argued that the low level of unemployment benefits has grown more people with underlying health problems to claim additional incapacity and disability benefits, as it is difficult to live for a period.
However, the narrowing of the gap in a neutral way for costs would mean major reductions to support disabled and sick people, in order to strengthen payments to the greatest number on the basic rate.
Much greater savings could be made by limiting the eligibility for PIPs, a decision that should appear in Kendall’s plan. People claiming handicapped support for mental health problems are likely to be the most affected.
Payments should be refused to around 1 million people, including those suffering from mental health problems and those who have trouble washing, eating and dressing. People who need hearing aid should also fall below the new threshold and may lose payments.
