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The U-turn, including protecting personal independence payments (Pip) for existing claimants, comes after 126 MPs threatened ...
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 ...
This is the full statement that has been issued by the Government explaining the major U-turn on PIP payments. It has today ...
The government's welfare bill has been altered as prime minister Keir Starmer sets out to gain the backing of more than 120 ...
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 “reasoned amendment” that would have prevented the Universal Credit and ...
The changes Liz Kendall announced overnight, including to Universal Credit and the Personal Independence Payment Bill, are ...
The government has been forced into another u-turn to see off a rebellion. But it really shouldn’t have come to this.
I have today added my name to those on the reasoned amendment, initiated by Dame Meg Hiller, which declines to give a second ...
Current Pip claimants will not lose their DWP benefits after the Government made concessions to Labour rebels on controversial welfare reforms.
State pensioners who have a severe disability can claim an extra £4,310.80 per year from the Department for Work and Pensions ...