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The hidden evidence against benefit cuts
Both Conservative and Labour administrations have now refused to release research showing PIP payments are vital for disabled people’s survival, exposing the ideological nature of planned welfare ‘reforms,’ writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall outside Downing Street, London, January 28, 2025

THE present Labour government is planning to make massive cuts to several welfare benefits. Current estimates suggest these cuts range from £3 billion to £10bn.

This government, which claims that all of its actions are guided by improving life for “working people,” wants to get rid of PIP which is a benefit that helps many disabled workers. It is not clear if Labour wants to bring back the barbaric Tory idea of replacing cash payments with vouchers. We should not forget that PIP is a non-means-tested benefit to help disabled people with the extra costs of being disabled.

John Pring, editor of the Disability News Service using a freedom of information request has obtained a copy of a three-year-old Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report, Triggers to Claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP). This totally undermines the arguments in favour of making cuts to PIP. Hence why both Tory and now Labour ministers are refusing to let this report be made available to the public.

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