Rachel Reeves torn aside by charity boss: ‘3.2m will be £2,000 worse off’ | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Rachel Reeves has been torn aside by a charity boss after her Spring Statement over cuts to welfare. The director of incapacity marketing campaign group Scope, James Taylor, says households will finally “lose more than they gain” after the Chancellor introduced that she would slash advantages. Ms Reeves can be dealing with pleas from Labour MPs to reverse the cuts amid warnings they may result in elevated poverty. “These are one of the biggest cuts to disability benefits for the last 20 years,” Mr Taylor instructed Sky News.

“250,000 people moving into poverty, 800,000 people losing PIP [personal independence payments]20% of all disabled households are going to be worse off as a result of today. These cannot be good outcomes of policy. We’ve been hearing from disabled people over the last two weeks who are extremely worried, and I think they’re going to be proved correct today, that people are going to be struggling to get by for years to come.”

The skilled then mentioned that the Government says its insurance policies will get folks into work, however claimed there’s “no analysis of how many will get into jobs”.

Ms Reeves confirmed throughout her Spring Statement an extra squeeze on the welfare funds, constructing on cuts to the incapacity and incapacity invoice set out by the Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, earlier this month.

The bundle is now anticipated to avoid wasting £4.8billion reasonably than the greater than £5billion in 2029/30 hoped for by ministers.

“This seems purely about saving money,” Mr Taylor added. “I don’t think 3.2million people losing on average £2,000 a year on average is the right thing to do.”

He then highlighted that the cuts will have an effect on folks with psychological well being issues, studying disabilities, autism and most cancers, in addition to carers and younger households.

Mr Taylor mentioned: “The Government’s own assessment is disabled families will lose more than they gain as a result of these changes.

“We’re not spending extra on welfare now than 10 years in the past as the share in GDP is roughly the identical.”

The Treasury and No. 10 are looking for “short-term financial savings,” he added.

When challenged on disabled folks dropping advantages, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, instructed the BBC yesterday: “I can’t talk about individual cases, but what we are doing is making sure that the most severely disabled are protected.”