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CALLOUS plans for “substantial disability benefit cuts” affecting over 160,000 people provoked fury yesterday.
Anti-austerity group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) said campaigners had “reacted angrily to the latest underhand cuts” to personal independent payments (PIPs), which Chancellor Philip Hammond defended in the Commons.
His Labour opposite number John McDonnell blasted the “brutal” policy, noting that it coincides with the government giving away “tax breaks to the wealthy.”
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
