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🚨| BREAKING: Labour will announce it will remove ALL disability benefits from 1 MILLION disabled people on Tuesday.

The changes will be announced tomorrow in a speech by the Work and Pensions secretary Liz Kendall. It is said the changes will not come into effect until 2026

Key points:

➡️ PIP denied for many mental health conditions

➡️ Benefits slashed for those who cannot work

➡️ PIP freeze idea “not serious”, was “a tactic”

➡️ Changes require MP vote

Plans aiming to save £5bn a year from the UK’s rising benefits bill to be unveiled on Tuesday by work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall will include a scaling back of “personal independence payments”, or PIP, that are made to cover extra costs for people who cannot work because of disability or ill health.

Under the reforms, PIP would be denied to many people with mental health conditions, while others with some physical and psychiatric conditions would see their benefits reduced to a lower level, according to people briefed on the plans.

These changes will require a vote in the House of Commons, the people said, pitting Starmer and his ministers against a rising chorus of backbench MPs who object to the measures and raising the possibility of the largest rebellion to date.

Dozens of Labour MPs have expressed serious concerns about withdrawing or cutting support for those in need, and several ministers raised objections with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at last week’s

cabinet meeting.

Yet Starmer and Kendall - who will present her green paper on Tuesday - are determined to curb the UK’s benefits spending, which they claim is sapping the economy and undermining growth.

Source: Financial Times