CEO of Citizen Citizens (CAB) has warned that cutting benefits to persons with disabilities would lead to pushing more people and making it difficult for them to enter into work.
In a rare intervention, Claire Moriti criticized exhaustion The government’s proposals as “a short -term procedure with very serious long -term consequences” risk leaving an effect between generations.
“Changing the criteria of eligibility, reassessing people, and reducing the amount of money they receive is a quick solution to the problem.” “The real danger is, with the occurrence of changes in the short term, many people are pushed to poverty with all the negative consequences of poverty, as they do not help them enter into work.
“By the time when the work support will be seized, they will be far from the ability to work as they will have worse health conditions, which means that they are still unable to work.”
Moretarti, a former civilian employee, confirmed that once people lose the advantages, they will fall into debts and that their personal conditions will make it difficult for them to have a job.
We know that poverty is closely related to poor mental health and poor physical health. If people lose benefits, it is very likely that this will lead to mental health problems, but also physical health problems because if you are in a bad residence, if you exceed meals, this has a negative impact on your health.
“We know that people who live in deprivation areas have two conditions on average 10 years before people in less deprived areas. So you are just creating the conditions in which people will get all the health conditions that mean that they cannot work, whether DWP believes they are able to do so or not.”
The Ministry of Labor and Pensions said it had “strengthened” employment support by publishing 1,000 work trainers to help the handicapped and patients specifically to work.
However, Morarti said, “It is not on the required range to deal with the people who will need it,” as soon as the benefits discounts occur.
“1000 work coaches will help 85,000 people; she added.
She said that the work support would not help people. “There is a problem with the sequence,” she said. “It is a long and difficult way to set a really good business support. People need broader and inclusive support that helps them, for example, with their housing problems, not just focusing in a narrow way on the types of jobs they may apply for. This takes some time and investment.”
The head of charitable works expressed her shock in learning to work, she was keen to pay the proposals.
If you look at the obligations that the government has reached – raising the living levels for all – if you are cutting the benefits without people being able
She urged the ministers to return back and consider the radical causes of the rise in the health conditions that cause people in these benefits in the first place.
“We have been in the austerity and poverty scenario for a long time now is a negative impact on people’s health.”
Morarti cited the importance of young mental health services as a “large piece of images” of prevention that can reduce the total bill. She also said that everyone needs to access a comprehensive employment service, otherwise people who are not in good health with the dependents risk causing harm to their children because they will grow up in families with poverty.
Professor Michael Marmin, one of the most prominent public health experts and Marmot Seminal, said he hoped that benefits discounts will be part of a wider health strategy and was not just a cost reduction exercise.
He said: “This means, at first, you will not put discounts to the benefits unless it was clear that it was part of a general strategy to improve property and welfare rights.” “I hope this is what we hear [next week]”
It raised concerns about increasing low -wage and insecure action and said that for many people, “work is not the way out of poverty.” “For me the challenge is not” Can we reduce the benefits invoice? “But” How do we take societal measures that would help people get out of the benefits to work? “He said.
I followed a study from CAB, which found more than 7.5 million people who said they would have to overcome meals if bills rose by only 20 pounds.
Some groups are particularly exposed – as half of the only and half -disabled parents say that an increase of 20 pounds of £ 20 will lead them to a crisis.
