I claim PIP - Labour cuts will backfire and push people like me out of work

I claim PIP - Labour cuts will backfire and push people like me out of work

Labour’s plan to cut benefits to boost employment levels will backfire by pushing disabled people out of work, ministers have been warned.Disabled people in work who also depend on personal independence payments (PIP) told The i Paper they were being unfairly targeted for “soul-destroying” welfare cuts.Last month the Government announced big changes to PIP and the incapacity element of universal credit aimed at saving almost £5 billion a year by…

PIP reforms are a betrayal - and Labour should know better - Vox Political

If the government’s planned changes to PIP are meant to support disabled people, they have a strange way of showing it. These PIP reforms are a betrayal - and Labour should know better. The new “four-point rule” will push more than a million people out of eligibility for daily living support—including people with cancer, arthritis, [...] The post PIP reforms are a betrayal – and Labour should know better appeared first on Vox Political.