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MORE than £100 million has been spent on administering reviews and appeals against disability benefit claims in just over two years, figures released today show.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spending is in addition to the tens of millions spent every year by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on appeals.
Disability benefits make up the bulk of these MoJ tribunals and about two-thirds of them have been won by claimants in the past year.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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