UK government announces reforms to fix ‘broken’ welfare system

Lease Kendall, Work and Pension Secretary, today will create a plan for a “guarantee to try” that will ensure that people who seek to return to employees will not remove their disability benefits automatically.

Experts and charity complain that the current system is discouraged from looking for work by threatening to remove their facilities as soon as the current system finds employment.

Kendall would say that “the right to try guarantee” means that when there are benefits when they try to get a job it will not automatically be considered as a relevant change in circumstances that will initiate the redefinition by the authorities.

This declaration of minister has arrived before a controversial package of designed steps to slash public expenses on health -related facilities.

These arrangements set on health and disabilities on Tuesday are designed to cut off up to $ 5 billion facility bills in a year. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said Friday that the government must get a grip in the “broken” facilities “.

However, this plan has already encouraged deep dissatisfaction among some charity and many labor parliamentarians who feared influence on the most vulnerable people in the society. Veteran ministers raised concerns about the package at an abnormally heated cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Bandal disability is expected to cut the top rate of benefits. Those considered ineligible for work are currently provided more than $ 800 a month – double images for employers.

At the same time, he is expected to increase the initial rate of assistance for those who are known as public credit.

Experts have long argued that the underlying health has driven more conditions for the benefit of the lower level of unemployment and the inability to facilitate the benefit of the inability.

The National Economic and Social Research Institute said last week that “UC” did not cover the required expenditures for more than 3 years, except for a short time during the Covid epidemic when the government gave it a temporary rise.

The most controversial component of reform is expected to change the criteria of qualification for a separate benefit called “Personal Freedom” (PIPS), which is a separate type of disability facility. PIP recipients have been predicted that the expenditures of 1MN claimers have increased by over $ 1mn since 2019 and will continue to increase.

The Times reported on Saturday that a million people face their benefits under the overholes of their pips, which means that only the most severely disabled will be qualified. Many people and those who fight with themselves with mental health conditions and those who fight against themselves and wear clothes will be denied. People who need hearing assistance are expected to come down to the new margin and lose in payment.

James Taylor of charity scope said: “Strengthening the evaluation is a catastrophic step and as a result, thousands of other disabilities will be pushed to poverty.”

A government official says: “The reforms will ensure that the benefit bills on a more sustainable steps on the long -term steps to unlock growth as part of our change are to ensure that serious ill and disabled people are always protected.”