US EditionReeves faces Labour revolt as benefits blitz to plunge 250k including 50k kids into poverty
- UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced welfare changes that would reportedly push 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
- Reeves rejected the Office for Budget Responsibility's figures, asserting that they do not account for the impact of programs aimed at helping people return to work.
- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation stated that Reeves' proposal will harm vulnerable people and worsen existing hardships.
- Critics argue that the government's welfare cuts will primarily impact low-income families, leaving 3.2 million families worse off.
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DWP warned 1.2m in poverty would lose winter fuel payment – but made cuts anyway
The Government estimated over a million people in already impoverished households would lose out on the winter fuel allowance if it was means-tested – before going ahead with the policy.Chancellor Rachel Reeves decided to scrap universal winter fuel payments in July, saving £1.4bn a year as the Labour Government sought to plug a hole in the public finances.The move meant only the poorest pensioners in receipt of pension credit or other means-tes…
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