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Sir Keir Starmmer told the worried MPs in the Labor right to slasion billions of pounds from the welfare bill, that the discharge can cause his authority to be found.
Labor Officials Say The Government is looking to cut some £ 5bn from the cost of the personal independence payments (PIP) – The main disability benefit – as Chancellor Rachel Reeves Attempts to fix a hole in the public finances and get more people into work.
The Prime Minister tells a full MPS meeting on Monday a broken welfare system with “wasted generation”, with an eight young people without education, work or training.
“I’m not afraid to bring big decisions,” Starmer said, warned that the taxpayer spends £ 70bn a year at the age of 2030.
Ministers are expected to publish a reform of benefit reform next week. Starmer’s party is already in a restoring condition about the proposed cut when he met MPs and peers to protect the strategy.
A Labor MP says: “There is no doubt that this issue is the greatest challenge of Keir’s authority we see so far, it goes to the core of people’s beliefs.”
Labor numbers have been confirmed that ministers plan a £ 5bn cut into PIP, intended to help further residency costs have a long-term health or disability. Torv News first reported the plans.
Louise Murphy, Senior Economist at Resolution Foundation Foundation
If the government intends to make an annual saving of £ 5bn by 2029-30 by imposing more claims of claimants, which means that people currently qualify, Murphy says.
Ministers believe that the PIP system is not intended to pay for many people with mental health conditions – Murphy says there are about 40 percent of new claims.
Storage can also be reached by introducing ways-testing for welfare, so it is only paid by people associated with health-related benefits through universal credit.
Paul Johnson, the Institute Director for fiscal studies, telling another proposed cut – the freezing PIP payments so they cannot save inflation – can also be unpopular with MPs in the Labor.
Welfare experts say that generosity of health-related benefits is a tacit recognition it is about to live long credit.
But great Cut welfare spending became unavoidable because of the aggravated fiscal vision facing reefes ahead of his spring statement on March 26, with the growing needs of spend more than defense.
Ahead of a meeting at Parliamentary Labor Party on Monday, Rachael Maskell, a former Shadow Minister, whose planned cuts make “deep, deep, deep, deep, mutual workers in MPs.
A MP says: “Some people feel very much and they are not the usual suspects. Many people find it very difficult with the wounds of the stomach’s welfare bill.”
A minister confirmed that the Starmer was targeted at welfare cuts through many MPs Labor but many were holding their fire until they saw the last package of reforms.
The minister added: “Many people think it’s a labor item. The clue is in the name: we’re a job party.”
Starmer is backed by some 35 MPs in the Labor that form a new “Break the British working”, claiming that the current system of benefit “is always acting as an obstacle against job search”.
For reeves, stopping expansion of disability benefits has become a requirement. Slow growth and higher borrowing costs are expected to wipe £ 9.9bn wriggle room in October against its own budget over 2029-30.
While Reeves signed that he does not want to lift the Spring statement, some analysts expect him to be forced to raise taxes later. An option is to expect Freezes personal tax thresholds In the other two years, extending £ 10bn in 2029-30.