Latest editorial
LABOUR accused the government yesterday of turning its back on disabled people after claiming ministers had hidden a £70 million cut to disability benefits in the Autumn Budget.
Shadow secretary of state for women and equalities Anneliese Dodds sent a letter yesterday to Disability Minister Chloe Smith demanding she “come clean” over alleged moves to reform disability benefits.
The Budget confirmed the government would be adopting two proposals raised in its health and disability Green Paper which relates to benefits.
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
