WThe financial rules imposed by them leave a small space for maneuver, the government has taken its choice: not for more borrowing or tax increase or Wealth tax Some of its deputies suggested – and Yes to reduce the advantages of the deficit. Speaking in the House of CommonsLiz Kendall, Minister of Labor and Pensions, made her best to talk about the financing that she got 1 billion pounds to help people return to work. But the dark reality is that 5 billion pounds of discounts on impotence and inability to leave up to one million worse. Wear it as it might – by blaming the conservatives in everything that happened in the system, and warning that the path of increasing demands is not sustainable – this is a wrong and harsh decision that the ministers must regret.
A possible freezing in the level of personal independence payments (PIPS) has been dropped for the disabled after the protests. The methods of the means were also not achieved, and therefore the entitlement is still global. but Claims criteria It is tightened, at the same time that a separate evaluation process for the healthy component of comprehensive credit is canceled. For those who do not meet new PIP standards, there can be a 3500 pounds sterling the annual income loss From next year (more details will come from the budget responsibility office). For several thousand families at risk, this will be a changing loss of life in income.
A healthy credit relationship is frozen instead of lowering the current recipients, which means that there will be no sudden decrease. But the prospects for the new demands are dark: A new annual average will be less than 2444 pounds sterling Unless resistance from deputies and activists lead to changes, as it should. Since the demands It is concentrated in poor areasThese cuts can exacerbate regional inequality and increase difficulties, including hunger, in places that are already suffering from depression.
There is no doubt that the benefits system is defective, and there is a need for repair. The decision to raise the basic global credit rate, and reduce the gap with the amount paid to those who are unable to work, has been late and welcome. Over time, this re -balance may contribute to improving the health of the plaintiffs, which many experts believe have been negatively affected by existence Incentives Especially the removal of conservatives to support those who are preparing to work, and who are sane people who were less sick or improved.
The ministers are concerned that the number of people suffering from their illness Continue Since the epidemic, when it retreated in other countries. The “right to experience” is the new work without losing advantages is a positive step. As well as commitment to protecting those who suffer from severe disabilities. But such measures, and even a billion pounds of employment support package, dwarfed us with wounds. The general impression is the foreign minister who was withdrawn from the carpet from under it due to the treasury request on savings.
These are the wrong options, and the government’s efforts to sell them make things worse. The disturbing discourse about the burden that cannot be tolerated on taxpayers as a scapegoat of the plaintiffs and the community damage. Although health -related claims have risen, in general The national income share that is spent on social security It was stable. It is a shame for the labor government to set a higher value on the financial rules and obligations not to raise taxes, compared to the needs of the disabled. Activists must continue to fight.
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