Published 16 days ago • United Kingdom • Updated 14 days ago

Checks on sick benefit claimants to increase under Labour reforms

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Sick and disabled benefit claimants face more frequent reassessments in a drive to save £1 billion, as ministers set out plans today to deal with an “ever-spiralling bill” for welfare. People with permanent or degenerative conditions may never have to be reassessed, however, as part of promised reforms that would guarantee payments to the most severely disabled.

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The Independent

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Sick and disabled face losing £1,200 a year in welfare benefits, think tank warns

As the OECD downgraded British growth forecasts, chancellor Rachel Reeves is still arguing over details of benefits cuts ahead of a major statement in the Commons

15 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Times

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Checks on sick benefit claimants to increase under Labour reforms

Sir Keir Starmer tightens rules in the hope of tackling a ‘ever-spiralling’ welfare bill but the most severely disabled will not have to be reassessed

15 days ago·United Kingdom

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BBC News

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Benefit changes: Moral and economic reasons to fix 'broken' welfare system, says No 10

Some Labour MPs say the government should borrow more rather than reduce benefits - or introduce a wealth tax.

16 days ago·United Kingdom

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Anas Sarwar told to apologise to disabled Scots for ‘broken promises’

The SNP says Sarwar has broken his promise that there would be no austerity under Labour

14 days ago

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Workers Revolutionary Party

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits – time to kick out Starmer’s government - Workers Revolutionary Party

LABOUR prime minister Keir Starmer is prepared to defy the growing anger of workers by pushing through welfare cuts that will impoverish over 600,000 of the UK’s most severely disabled. This week Labour are to reveal the extent to which their war on the sick and disabled will devastate their lives. A backlash from Labour MPs, and the disgust of workers at a Labour government attacking the most vulnerable in society in order to ‘balance the books…

15 days ago

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BBC News broke the news in United Kingdom 16 days ago on Monday, March 17, 2025.

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Checks on sick benefit claimants to increase under Labour reforms

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Sick and disabled face losing £1,200 a year in welfare benefits, think tank warns

Checks on sick benefit claimants to increase under Labour reforms

Benefit changes: Moral and economic reasons to fix 'broken' welfare system, says No 10

Anas Sarwar told to apologise to disabled Scots for ‘broken promises’

620,000 sick and disabled will lose £675 a month under Labour’s attack on benefits – time to kick out Starmer’s government - Workers Revolutionary Party

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