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FEARS mounted yesterday that cruel Con-Dem ministers are poised to slash social security for the sick and disabled in a bid to bring down benefits costs.
The BBC reported on leaked government documents detailing plans to hack back the employment and support allowance (ESA) from £28.75 a week to just 50p for those deemed “ready for work.”
A Whitehall spokesman would only say that it was not yet “policy.”
‘Ultimately, all of Reform's policies benefit big business and attack workers and the poor,’ Diane Abbott MP tells the Star
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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