Disability claimants with back problems to lose most in Labour’s welfare changes

A Labour MP on the Work and Pensions committee just threw disabled people under the bus

Labour MP David Pinto-Duschinsky has used LabourList to defend Liz Kendall's cuts to DWP PIP and Universal Credit

Disability claimants with back problems to lose most in Labour’s welfare changes

Liz Kendall will argue her benefit cuts are necessary to save the welfare state

£5 billion welfare cuts needed to ‘save’ system, Kendall to say

The Government appears intent to press ahead with the plans amid mounting opposition. The Work and Pensions Secretary will stand firm on Labour’s £5 billion plans for welfare cuts on Wednesday, arguing that reform is needed to make sure the system survives. Liz Kendall is expected to say there is a “risk” the welfare state would collapse without the proposed changes, which include tightening the eligibility criteria for the main disability benef…

'It's a vicious cycle': Labour's benefit cuts could push people with MS out of work, report finds

Half of UK workers with multiple sclerosis (MS) have felt forced to stay in jobs that worsen their health, a damning new report has found.

Mo Stewart’s PIP Briefing Confirms What We Already Knew

Back in April, I sent an open letter to the Prime Minister, Chancellor, and Work and Pensions Secretary, warning that Labour’s planned changes to disability benefits — including the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) — would lead to poverty, despair, and death. At the time, it felt like shouting into the wind. But now, that warning [...] The post PIP briefing for Labour MPs confirms what we knew: these cuts will kill appeared first on Vox Polit…