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“CRUEL” Chancellor George Osborne was warned yesterday that he faces a tax credits-style insurrection over cuts to disability benefits after the devastating human cost was laid bare.
Plans to slash personal independence payments (PIP) were the most significant part of £3.5 billion annual cuts package included in Mr Osborne’s Budget on Wednesday.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) pointed to Office for Budget Responsibility analysis yesterday showing that 370,000 claimants will lose an average of £3,500 every year.
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY