Keir Starmer intends to proceed with significant welfare cuts that could impact more than 600,000 severely disabled claimants, with an average loss of £675 per month. The work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, will announce these changes, which include raising the eligibility threshold for Personal Independent Payments (PIP). While initial plans to freeze PIP payments have been dropped amid rising dissent, the revised criteria could still lead to substantial financial losses primarily affecting low-income families. Disability rights campaigners and Labour MPs express alarm over these developments, fearing that targeting those unable to work is unjust.
Keir Starmer is poised to implement welfare cuts affecting over 600,000 severely disabled individuals, with an overhaul that could average a loss of £675 per month.
The Resolution Foundation has projected that these changes, particularly raising the qualifying threshold for support, could disproportionately impact the poorest families in society.
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