Benefits crackdown unveiled with aim to save £5bn a year by 2030

The government has unveiled extensive changes in the profit system, aimed at saving £ 5BN one year by 2030.

Work and Pension Secretary Liz Kendal said that overhaul will create a more “pro-work system” to encourage people to do jobs, while protecting those who cannot work.

Change will make it difficult for people with less serious conditions to claim disability payments. Additional benefits for health conditions will also be about half for current contenders and for new applicants.

And People below 22 years of age can be prevented from claiming universal credit Top-up payment for health conditions.

The government has not allowed the accurate breakdown of forecast savings, but wholesale is expected to come from a change in eligibility for disability payments.

The overall profit bill will continue to increase – but Kendall told the BBC that the changes would put welfare on “sustainable footing” more than bringing people to work.

Since the Kovid epidemic has to spend on benefits related to health and disability, and by 2029 currently it is estimated to increase from £ 65bn to £ 2029 to £ 100bn.

Proposal The results of the work are the result of the months, but they have become more important with the deteriorating economic background, making it more difficult for the government to meet their self-levied rules on borrowings and expenses.

Charity and some labor MPs are worried that profit cuts will push disabled people into poverty.

The government responded to its concerns by scrapping the plan to freeze personal freedom payment (PIP), providing additional life costs for those who have long -term physical or mental health conditions.

But Kendal said that eligibility for PIPS – the main disability benefits in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – will be tightened from November 2026.

The daily living component of PIP will be difficult to qualify, which is for those who need help in everyday tasks and start from £ 72.65 a week.

There will be no change in the mobility component, for those who need to help.

Kendall told the BBC details that next week how many people will be affected with Chancellor Rachel Reaves’s spring statement.

The Resolution Foundation Think Tank has estimated that 800,000 to 1.2 million people may lose support due to the ban on claiming PIPs.

Kendal also announced the work capacity assessment, which is used to determine whether any work is fit and if they can receive additional benefits payments due to health condition or disability, scrapping in 2028.

He said that the assessments were “complex, time -consuming and often stressful for claimants, as well as” cannot work on a binary can “.

In the future, financial assistance for health conditions will be available only through PIP evaluation, which will be based on the effect of one’s health rather than the ability to work.

To determine whether anyone is still eligible for profit, it will grow to determine, although people with the most serious conditions who never improve will be re -created.

The additional amount of universal credit for health or disability from April next year will be frozen for the existing contenders by 2029/30 and will be deducted by about half for new contenders.

There will be an additional premium for people with severe, lifelong conditions, which means they will never work.

Meanwhile, a permanent, above mentioned increase for standard allowance of universal credit-£ 775 in cash up to 2029/30 equivalent to £ 775 annual growth.

The government will also introduce a “right to try” to guarantee that people who try to do jobs will not lose their existing benefits if it does not work.

Disability Benefits Consortium, which represents more than 100 donations and organizations, said: “These immoral and destructive benefits will push more disabled people into poverty, and will spoil people’s health.”

The SNP stated that the measures “will harm the weakest people” and “mark the beginning of a new era of austerity”.

Debbie Abraham, Labor MP, who presided over the Commons Work and Pension Committee, argued that “there were more kind ways to balance books rather than the back of sick and disabled people”.

However, other labor MPs agree with the government that there is a moral matter for improving the welfare system to encourage people to work.

The conservatives stated that the changes were “very rare, too late” and needed to be “hard”.

Shadow Work and Pension Secretary Helen said why the government was only planning to save £ 5BN annually, when the total bill for health and disability benefits is estimated to be more than £ 100bn per year by 2029/30.

Steve Darling, spokesperson of Liberal Democrat Work and Pension, said: “If the government was serious about the deduction in welfare expenses, it will be serious about health and social care and social care and fixing the broken department of work and pension.”

Some changes will require new laws, increasing the possibility of rebellion by some labor MPs during votes in Parliament.

However, the size of the majority of the government limits the danger with one vote.