Checks on sick benefit claimants to increase under Labour reforms

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

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

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.

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

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…