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Critics say the Government's welfare U-turn has created a 'two-tier system' for current and future disabled claimants ...
Under the changes, around 1.5 million of the current claimants would not be found eligible for the “daily living” side of the ...
Sir Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms strike "the right balance" after making concessions to his own backbench MPs.
The U-turn, including protecting personal independence payments (Pip) for existing claimants, comes after 126 MPs threatened ...
In a letter to MPs, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said personal independence payments would be protected. | ITV ...
Some 126 Labour backbenchers had signed an amendment that would have halted the Universal Credit and Personal Independence ...
This is the full statement that has been issued by the Government explaining the major U-turn on PIP payments. It has today ...
There's significant speculation that some of the proposed disability benefit changes will be scaled back: we discuss some of ...
Starmer’s plans sparked widespread backlash, including from dozens of Labour backbenchers. More than 120 of them signed a ...
I have today added my name to those on the reasoned amendment, initiated by Dame Meg Hiller, which declines to give a second ...
The government's welfare bill has been altered as prime minister Keir Starmer sets out to gain the backing of more than 120 ...
The government has been forced into another u-turn to see off a rebellion. But it really shouldn’t have come to this.